[ { "id": 233757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "REPORT & ESTIMATE No 50F 1851,\n\nDEBTORS\n\nPRISON\n\nYard\n\n28×20\n\n20\n\nJanuary or Feral.\n\nPart of yard.\n\nBath Room 3x6\n\nYeran dah\n\n8 ft Wide\n\nBath/wc\n\nFemale Dormitory\n\nKeeper\n\nDay Room\n\n16'-0\"x12'\n\n12:6x9\n\nKitchen\n\nVerandah\n\nاور علم مگر قوم\n\nPLAN\n\n12\n\nDormitory\n\n12'-0\"x8'; 12:6\n\navailable for 4 persons\n\nPart of yard\n\nBoundary wall.\n\nSith word\n\nChunam Distemper -,\n\n12'-0\"x12:6'\n\nBath\n\nGround\n\nTRANSVERSE\n\nSECTION.\n\nVENTILATOR.\n\nEND ELEVATION.\n\nO\n\n263\n\n2012\n\ngradatio", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 355, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "## The Rostrumation Boundary last-\n\nM. Strachey was sent to F.O. to draft an instruction.\n\nI delay promulgating the Repage with wach Dubes before the mark.\n\nThe U 15. Ay. Sie 7. together with this letter Panuts, however, refers to the loud Godte.\n\n### Onta \nThe Thine tenant bie, Die Frvent of lng kung Plow Haykay 24 the August.\n\nWith reference to my despatch 10.112 of the mist. Trans. bothuchy Apt 18/12 mithing die.\n\nI thogens 19 I Conlesun Bake of heverthe May.\n\n**Proclamation**\n\n(M! Treasury is within, to Captain Adi of Her Majesty in Comil, of the 6th inst, apturing a denst Roclimation that the D. in Cammil for the new repetition was sent.\n\n1off, befin their letter, driving its transmission the stopped- of the cursery wm me, but that path. Wong Kong, catie Comtur.\n\nHoe zur information malo pidann a chey Near \n\nPage 352 \n\n2° 119.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "## Kowloon Tenement \n\nLam also wrote to Annoy Auswin a draft of the address which should have his Lordship's concurrence. Inwardwell proposes to address the Acting Governor.\n\nEntered Hongkong No.136. 55-6576 \nOffer Ada H. 6. 7510 \n\n## MINUTE 37\n\nSt. Johnson 24. \nAj Wo 25 \n133 \n14 Aug/65 \n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 55 of the 12 May, in which you enclose copies of a correspondence with the Military authorities on the subject of the erection of a boundary on that portion of the SW. Point of Kowloon, which under certain conditions is to be taken over by ... \nhath & assumption by ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "content_text": "# OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL\n## ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED FOR ADDITIONS TO Police Stations\n\n### PLAN OR DESCRIPTION.\n\nIt is proposed during the ensuing year to carry out various alterations and additions to the Police Stations in the Colony. These alterations have become necessary for the efficiency of the Force and for the proper distribution of the Police in the several Districts.\n\nAt N°2 Station, Leighton's Hill, increased accommodation is required; at present 2 Chinese Houses adjoining the Station have to be rented owing to the insufficiency of accommodation in the Station. It is proposed to add an upper Floor as being the most economical method of obtaining increased accommodation. A Lock-up and another Bath-room will also be provided. During the alterations, the Police will be partly accommodated at the Guard House, Royal Mint.\n\nThe Wanchai Station, originally a private residence, is quite insufficient in point of accommodation, many of the Police being unavoidably quartered at N°4 Station; it is impossible to increase the size of this Station without entirely rebuilding it. It is therefore proposed to re-build the old station as stables and to build Quarters for Indian Constables.\n\n### Approved,\n\nSigned Richard Graves MacDonnell \nGovernor.\n\n| Station | Description of Work | Cost |\n|----------------|----------------------------------------------------------|-------|\n| N°2 Police Station | New Upper Story, Lock-up, and Bath-room | 318 |\n| N°3 Police Station | Flooring to all sleeping rooms and ante rooms | |\n| New Wanchai Police Station | - | 300 |\n| N°4 Police Station | Stabling for 3 horses, Lockup, Offices, and Rearrangement of Cut offices | 300 |\n| N°5 Police Station | Bathrooms to be rearranged, Lockup, and Door | |\n| N°7 Police Station | Water to be laid on, Boundary wall, West side | 400 |\n| N°8 Police Station | New Bath, Quarters for Indian Constables, Lock-up, and Stabling for 3 horses | 750 |\n| Total | | 7150 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "498\n\nParts of Parishes may be added to the Police District.\n\nParishes added to the District to be within 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 89.\n\n2o & 3o VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.\n\nII. And whereas by the said Act of the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth Her Majesty is empowered, by the Advice of Her Privy Council, to order that any Parishes, Townships, Precincts, and Places, whether parochial or extra-parochial, in the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, of which any Part shall be situated within Twelve Miles of Charing Cross in the City of Westminster, shall be added to and form Part of the Metropolitan Police District: And whereas the Boundary of the District so formed is very irregular: Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by the Advice of Her Privy Council, to order that any Place which is Part of the Central Criminal Court District, except the City of London and Liberties thereof, and such Places as are or may be included in any Act already passed or to be passed in this Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for regulating the Police in the City of London, and also that any Part of any Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place which is not more than Fifteen Miles distant from Charing Cross in a straight Line may be added to and form Part of the Metropolitan Police District, although the whole of such Parish, Township, Place, or Precinct may not be added thereto; and all the Provisions of this Act, and of the said Act as amended by this Act, shall extend and apply to the Parishes, Townships, Precincts, or Places, or the Parts thereof, so respectively added; and in case no separate Rate shall be levied for the Relief of the Poor in any Place or Part so added, the Police Rate shall be assessed and levied therein in like Manner as in Extra-parochial Places within the Metropolitan Police District in which no Rate is levied for the Relief of the Poor.\n\nIII. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which after the passing of this Act any Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place, or any Part thereof, shall become Part of the Metropolitan Police District, it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or Three or more Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to direct the Issue, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of an additional yearly Sum not greater in each Case than the Amount of Twopence in the Pound upon the additional Rental assessed to the Metropolitan Police by reason of such Addition, free of all Rates, Taxes, and Impositions, to be paid and applied in aid of the Charge of maintaining the Police of the Metropolis, upon the same Conditions, with respect to the District so added to the Metropolitan Police District, as the Issue of a Sum not exceeding Sixty thousand Pounds out of the said Consolidated Fund is authorized, with respect to the Parishes and Places already within the Metropolitan Police District by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty intituled 3 & 4 W. 4. An Act to authorize the Issue of a Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund towards the Support of the Metropolitan Police; and every Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place, or any Part thereof, within the Counties last aforesaid, which at any Time shall be Part of the Metropolitan Police District, shall be within all the Provisions of the last-recited Act as amended by this Act.\n\nc. 89.\n\nRepeal of 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 50, with Limitation.\n\n2o & 3o VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.\n\n499\n\nIV. And be it enacted, That an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize the placing of the Horse Patrol now acting under the Authority of the Chief Magistrate of the Public Office in Bow Street under the Authority of the Justices appointed for the Metropolitan Police District, is hereby repealed; but notwithstanding the Repeal of the said Act it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint the Justices appointed and to be appointed under the said Act of the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth to be Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, although they may not be qualified by Estate; and the said Justices shall be empowered to act as Justices in the last-mentioned Counties as fully as in any other Part of the Metropolitan Police District, and not further or otherwise, and shall be styled \"The Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis.\"\n\nV. And be it enacted, That the Constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force shall have all the Powers and Privileges of a Constable in the Counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, and upon the River Thames within or adjoining to the several Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Berkshire, Essex, and Kent, and within or adjoining to the City of London and the Liberties thereof, and in and on the several Creeks, Inlets, and Waters, Docks, Wharfs, Quays, and Landing Places, thereto adjacent, and shall act therein and thereupon as fully as in any Part of the Metropolitan Police District.\n\nVI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or Three or more Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to direct the Issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District of a yearly Sum not greater than Twenty thousand Pounds, free of all Rates, Taxes, and Impositions, for defraying the increased Charge of the Establishment of the Metropolitan Police Force by reason of that Force being required to perform the Duties heretofore performed by the Horse Patrol and by the Surveyors and Constables of the Thames Police, and also the Issue of such further Sum as shall be needed for the Payment of the Superannuation Allowances of such Surveyors and Constables as have been superannuated under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, or any subsequent Act for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis, or who may hereafter become entitled to Superannuation Allowances under the Provisions of any such Act.\n\nVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to administer to any Constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force an Oath to execute the Office of Constable for the Royal Palaces of Her Majesty and Ten Miles thereof; and every Constable who shall be so sworn shall have the Powers and Privileges of a Constable within the said Royal Palaces and Ten Miles thereof.\n\nVIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Police, if they shall think fit, on the Application of ...\n\n171\n\nF\n\nPage 498\n\nPage 498\n\nPage 498\n\nPage 499\n\nPage 499\n\nPage 499", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282726, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1870.\n\n### GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n**No. 36.**\n\nHis Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C. B., has been pleased to appoint ALFRED LISTER, Esquire, to be Sheriff of Hongkong, from this date until further notice, vice M. S. TONNOCHY, Esquire.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1870.\n\n**No. 115.**\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\n### GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Regulations for Street-Chairs and Chair-Coolies are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd October, 1869.\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo Street Chairs may ply for hire after midnight; they may, however, carry their fares as long as required.\n\nEach Chair is secured for a sum of $50. Should articles of a higher value than this be lost in any Chair, there will be very little hope of their recovery through the Security.\n\nWhen loss of property in any Street Chair is suspected, its number should be forwarded to the Registrar General at once without any loss of time.\n\nWhen ground of complaint arises against any Street Chair-Coolie, the Person aggrieved may either hand the offender over to the Police, or send a Memorandum of the complaint and the Chair's Number to the Registrar General. It must however be remembered, that the Registrar General can inflict only a reprimand, but neither fine nor imprisonment without the testimony of an eye witness on oath.\n\nThis however may be supplied by any Chinese who witnessed the Offence, if accredited by a confirmatory note from his employer.\n\nPersons who are inconvenienced by the congregating of Chairs near their premises should notify the Registrar General, who will, if practicable, establish a \"Chair Stand\" in the nearest convenient place, and as far as possible enforce the Ordinance in regard to it.\n\nAn attempt will be made to enforce the ordinary \"Rule of the Road,\" along Queen's Road, more especially in the evening. It is requested that all Persons riding in Chairs or driving Vehicles will co-operate with the Police by observing the Rule of keeping the left side.\n\nEach Street Chair carries on the back of its Number Board, a Tariff of Fares, condensed from the following:\n\n### LEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, CHAIR BEARERS, AND BOATS, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\n| Service | Fare |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chairs, or Ordinary Pullaway Boats, Half hour | 12 cents |\n| Hour | .50 cents |\n| Three hours | .75 cents |\n| Six hours | One Dollar |\n| Day (from 6 to 6) | |\n| Night Fares (after 8 P.M.) | .10 cents extra |\n| CHAIR HIRE TO OUT DISTRICTS.* | |\n| To Stanley and back | .50 cents per Man |\n| Beyond Victoria and back | .60 cents per Man |\n| LICENSED BEARERS (EACH.) Half day | 20 cents |\n| Day | .36 cents |\n\n* Persons who make short excursions out of the town should understand that they are quite at liberty to pay by the hour if they prefer to do so.\n\nVictoria lies below the level of Robinson Road, and includes all the town between the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, with the Race-course.\n\nCopies of the above Tariff, in English and Chinese, or of these Regulations, can be obtained on application at the Registrar General's Office.\n\nRegistrar General's Office, 1st October, 1869.\n\n### GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nOwners of Tenements assessed to the Police, Lighting, Water and Fire Brigade Rates, are informed that the Rates are payable in advance during and within the month of April, for the Second Quarter of the year 1870.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe attention of Rate Payers is drawn to the Second Clause of Ordinance No. 9 of 1869, which Clause specifies that in Default in the Payment of Rates, such arrears may be sued for by the Colonial Treasurer in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and a Certificate under the hand of the Treasurer, setting forth the particulars of the sums due for Rates and then outstanding shall be \"Prima facie evidence of the Facts certified by the Treasurer.\n\nRate Payers are therefore informed that all Rates in arrear after the 30th April, 1870, will be sued for in accordance with the Provisions of the Clause and Ordinance specified above.\n\nFREDK. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.\n\nColonial Treasury, Hongkong, 7th April, 1870.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nAny persons who have in their possession old Registration Tickets belonging to Servants who have left or have been dismissed, are requested to send the same to this Office, with any remarks, on separate papers, they may wish to have recorded.\n\nIt would much tend to the more satisfactory working of the Registration of Domestic Servants, if Registration Tickets were in every case kept completely out of the possession of the Servants themselves. On the dismissal of a Servant his Ticket should be sent to this Office, unless it can be handed at once to his new Employer, and should on no account be confided to his own custody.\n\nALFRED LISTER, Acting Registrar General.\n\nRegistrar General's Office, Hongkong, 28th May, 1869.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nConsignees and Masters of Ships are hereby informed that, after the 15th Proximo, the Boundary, North of which Vessels shall not anchor, is as follows:--- Kellet's Island bearing E. by S. 1/2 S.\n\nAll Ships to be properly moored with 35 fathoms Chain (East and West). The passage between the North Boundary of Men-of-War anchorage and the Kowloon Peninsula is to be kept clear.\n\nSteamers and Vessels not having definite employment will still remain on the North side.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbor Master, &c.\n\nHarbor Master's Office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1869.\n\n### No. 70.-List of DEAD LETTERS\n\nwhich have been returned from the General Post Office, London, and other places, for the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed to undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them on application.\n\n| Name | Address |\n| --- | --- |\n| Adair, Hy. J. | Yokohama |\n| Beach, John | Langdale Street, London, E.C. |\n| Bell, Mr. | Engineer Works, Yokohama |\n| Bendick, J. E. | 37, Natoma Street, San Francisco |\n| Bishop, S. S. | Newcastle, N.S.W. |\n| Bonanjee, Limjeebhoy Patiwala | Hongkong |\n| Busch, J. | David Strasse, Hamburg |\n| Baxton, Mes. S. | Commercial Road, London |\n| Campbell, Joseph | U.S. Mint, San Francisco |\n| Canovan, Emma | Sacramento City, California |\n| Carvell, Jesse | Shanghai |\n| Cassumbhoy Nathabley Sons & Co. | Hongkong |\n| Chase, J. B. | San Francisco, California |\n| Ching Hong | Malee Wood, California |\n| Craig, John | San Francisco, California |\n| Davis, Peter | Dutchess & Co., New York |\n| De Vries, Thomas | San Francisco |\n| Easton, Edward | Shanghai |\n| Eastwood, W. P. | Manchester |\n| Ewing, Frank | 130, Dupont Street, San Francisco |\n| Fangoy, F. W. | of New York, Williersburg |\n| Findlay, Alexander | Portland, Oregon |\n| Flood, Edward | Opera Restaurant, San Francisco |\n| Girola, Madame | Turin |\n| Hagemann, Captain | barque Johann Smidt, Yokobama |\n| Halsey, Mrs. | Julia C., Greenc, New York |\n| Harding, Captain | barque Stirling, New York |\n| Hughes, Mr. Johé | Alleghany, Penn., U.S.A. |\n| Jackson, Mary Anne | 67, St. George's Street, London, E. |\n| Jansen, George | State Franklin, North America |\n| Jenkins, Clara | 41, Fifth Street, New York |\n| Johnson, R. B. | Post Office, San Francisco |\n| Kader Maydem | Flower Bazaar, Madras |\n| Kooppamalo | Cain's Street, Cuddalore, Madras |\n| Lamont, Captain | burque Ettrick, Yokohama |\n| Lehmann, E. C. & Co. | London |\n| Maggs, Alies | 15, Berkley Street, Bristol |\n| Merrick, Mrs. Ñ. A. | San Francisco |\n| Millican, G. | 73, Trafalgar Street, Walworth Road, Loudon |\n| Millican, Miss | 11 Ann's Row, Walworth Road, London |\n| Mitchell, Miss Alice | 8, Charlotte Street, King's Cross, London |\n| Mottu, Álfred | cure of 1. M. Jaquemot, Yokohama |\n| Monastier, Simon | or Simon Lyon, Yokohama |\n| Murphy, Joseph | 13, Third Street, San Francisco |\n| \"Nação\" Redacção da | Lisboa |\n| Nealon, Miss L. | Thomas Street, Whitechapel Road, London |\n| Nissene, Doctor | New York |\n| Nicol, Peter | San Francisco |\n| Noad, James | San Francisco |\n| Olles, George | 1,012, Battery Street, San Francisco |\n| Osborn, Jobu | St. Mary's Parish, Louisinaa, U.S.A. |\n| Palmer, C. P. | Box 379, New York |\n| Parsons, Ann | 18, Kensington View, Prescot Road, Liverpool |\n| Phalen, C. S. | Yokobama |\n| Pick up, Miss E. | Pembroke Place, London Road, Liverpool |\n| Ramonha, Barber | Jownpeor, near Javaneckapoorah, Bengal |\n| Rossignol, Mrs. H. Le | Grove Hotel, Granville, France |\n| Roth, C. Aug. | Frankfort S. M., Germany |\n| Short, Mr. | passenger per steamer Japan, Yokohama |\n| Stokes, George | Gyfethland, Glamorganshire, Wales |\n| Sutton, John | 4 Gates Strect, Poplar, London |\n| Taylor, Joba | 3 St. Ann's Square, Manchester |\n| Thevenin, C. L. | Hongkong, (refused) |\n| Th...ger, E. B. D. | Payinaster H.N., Admiralty, London |\n| Thompson, Miss, Milly | Yokoliama |\n| Thornton, Mrs. J. | 116, South Fifth Street, Jersey City, USA. |\n| Torriani, Maria Antonietta | Milauo |\n| Toller, Lieut. J. E. | Royal Engineers, Dover |\n| Wakefield, Miss Grace | Sacramento, California |\n| Webster, John | on board the British barque Albert, New York |\n| Williams, Mrs. Ann | West Broadway, New York |\n| Wills, Mrs. M. | Post Office, Plyn:outh, England |\n| Wyman, W. | San Francisco, California |\n\nF. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 16th April, 1870.\n\nPage 198\nPage 356\nPage 190", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 293936, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "page_number": 596, "title": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "content_text": "## Specifications for Building Works\n\nThe outside venetians to be hung with **44 inch Bars** projecting bolts. Strong & ink iron cabin door hooks to keep all shutters and sashes open may be required as the case may be.\n\nProvide and fix American grates with fire brick backs to all openings where shown, and wood plain iron chimney pieces to each. The fireplace in Postmaster's office and sitting room to be tiled.\n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bath trays | Provide four Bath trays covered with discharge pipe (iron 24 diam.) leading through the wall down to the outside surface gutter. |\n| Paint | Paint designations to doors and windows where required in 2 Roman letters. All iron work to have three coats. |\n| Glazing | Glaze all the windows with best 16 oz glass and good linseed oil putty. |\n\nVarnish all floors and woodwork usually varnished with Hingpo varnish, and paint all rooms.\n\nThe Contractor to provide for the building and completion of the out-offices, Boundary wall, yard gates, and entrance as shown.\n\nThe out-offices at the west end, and portion of those on the East side to be two storied. A Servant's stairs to be provided on the west side communicating...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "to enable them to purchase a Fire Engine and Equipments and a sum of #450 was voted for this purpose\n\nThe vote now submitted for your Lordship's approval are sums for the remuneration of the staff which it is necessary to keep up for the proper expression of the engine and other equipments.\n\nRoads Sheets and\n\nBridges\n\nThere is only one other item to which I need to call Your Lordship's attention, that is the vote of #3500 for a path along the proposed New Road, deferring Bellary Boundaries.\n\nAs Your Lordship is aware, permission was given to the Executive to ask for a vote of £50000 to make a carriage road along a line which had been previously sanctioned by the Tram Office and which was to serve as a boundary line, and for the last few years this vote has always appeared on the estimate.\n\nAs, however, there is no immediate prospect of the construction of the road, and as the Government has been frequently requested by the local Military Authorities to put up either the road or something that would equally serve as a boundary line, I submitted to the Legislative Council the propriety of voting a small sum to make a path instead of the road, and accordingly the sum of $2500 was voted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297911, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "Memorate home whom to show upet\n\n11. July at the bust duster Agrees to above propose\n\nMaster Gast\n\n12. 7. August lol. Detalle Col. Sec: higgest formal transfer of\n\n(Manite from Surveyor Best W\n\n4869\n\n369\n\n65\n\n76\n\nCopy)\n\n2e26\n\nGovernment House\n\nkhung bảng\n\n28th April 1866\n\nSir,\n\nyou\n\nthat on\n\nrok\n\n13. 24 Jan 1976 Col-Sec. Aut Mites Auggests that in heir of the;\n\na path be made to serve as lemp boundary\n\nRecretary\n\n14. 8736 1876. Aust Fruits Col. Me declines acceding to above pro\n\nSecretary.\n\nwithout first referring the wall to thee tee of State.\n\nSeparate 13. March Sunceyor Gent Col. See lnters into the question geners\n\n1876.\n\nand cephes to Euggestion made Col. Moggridge Commanding Pop\n\nInclosures in Surveyor Chauth Report luguéer\n\n8 March R. 9. Alford Surveyor had thates banner in which transfe\n\n(Indorial in Lurityor Pads Report) was\n\n·!!) Detached Plan marked \"C\"\n\neffected in 1869.\n\nIllustrating impossibility of makin new 800 yard range in manner by on page as of lurveyor Energh\n\nGundnar Shohin Colomal Secretary\n\nI have the honor to inform\n\nthe 4th Instant. I\n\nreceived an intimation from\n\na from the Commandant of the Garrison that the Lands xe, granted for Military purposes in the Colony would be perambulated and the barrier gates\n\nclosed on the oth instant in accordance with instructions received from the\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nEdward Cardwell M. P.\n\nHer Mappaty = Principal Secretary /\n\nMar", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334499, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "316\n\nSee copy Order and \"and 59 feet of and that those measurements brought him to the South Western \"boundary of Lot 38; and that the three measurements of 59 ft. 11/62° 59 ftg\" and 4ft 2 inch when added together give 126ft q. the exact lease measurement of Lot 38.\n\n#\n\nLot\n\nIn arriving at this measurement of 126ft q. Mr Vanby measures along the \"outside or Southern side of the Wall running along the Southerer side of Lot \"38. and M. Stefchons state's the bree Southech boundary of that Lot runs to\n\nof t\n\nFrom the above it will be seen that the Price was not attempting to mark out the line of demarcation, but only to prove that the boundary line between Lots \"185. and 38. and Lot 1844. could not on Mr. Camby's own evidence out the Southern\n\nsaid it does.\n\nboundary of the lots at the point at which tra Canby has fixed his line.\n\n\"Under these circumstances I have to report that Mr.\n\nof demarcation, and that Me Price has objected to its accuracy for the reasons given above.\n\nSeal of Supreme Court (Hongkong)\n\n(M.) Alfred G. Wise\n\nActing Registrar\n\nMay 14th. 1885.\n\n1. By order of Court in Chambers dated the 4th day of September 1885 and made by the Honorable Mr. Ackroyd Registrar of the Supreme Court then Acting Puisne Judge and as such Acting Chief Justice during the absence of the Chief Justice it was ordered that the Acting Registrar's Report be confirmed and that the line fixed by Mr Vanly and in the said Report mentioned be the boundary between Marine Lots No. 184. and 185. and Inland Lot N. 38. and that the Plaintiffs be put into possession by the Bailiff of that Honorable Court of the Land which by the Judgment of that Honorable Court delivered the day of March last was declared to belong to the Plaintiffs,\n\n14. In pursuance of this Order the Bailiff on the 9th day of October 1885 as appears by the Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong dated, the 7th day of September 1885 and Bailiff's return of the said Bailiff's return endorsed thereon a certified copy of which order and annexed.\n\nPage 10 post. \"retion are hereunto annexed attended with the Plaintiffs Solicitor upon the ground? and taking down the division fence between the Plaintiffs Marine Lot N. 15. and your Petitioners Marine Lot. N° 184. entered into the Land of your Petitioner and took possession of so much there of as Mr Vanly (not on oath and without measurements", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335791, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "# 2\n\nTien-ch'iao (natural bridge), where a stream emerges from beneath limestone hills. Here there was once a flourishing silver mine, but the workings were buried by a landslip many years ago, as the natives said, since which the ore has only been worked by squatters, who wash it and send it away in small quantities to be smelted: the ore is said to yield both zinc and silver.\n\nSince scaling the plateau up to Hui-shui-t'ang the rocks have been the same, namely, limestone, generally argillaceous, and shale with sandstone only at the bottom of the deep valleys beneath the limestone. After Hui-shui-t'ang the argillaceous limestone is supplanted by a harder rock, apparently siliceous limestone. The gorges, bluffs, caves, and underground rivers that filled the landscape with romantic nooks and picturesque surprises now give way to broad valleys and hills, hard, round, and desolate. The villages are terribly poor. Some, as Yao-chang, were evidently once more considerable, for there are well-hewn blocks of limestone lying about that would not disgrace a London warehouse. But over a pile of such stones there are now nothing better than brushwood shanties, into which an English farmer would scruple to put a cow.\n\nOn the 18th November we reached Wei-ning Chon, which was burnt several times during the rebellion, a wretched place, commercially speaking, but interesting from its position on a lake, and from the fact of its being one of the highest towns in this part of the world (7,330 feet). I have put the lake into my sketch as it appears on the District Magistrate's Map, where it is described as follows:\n\n\"This was formerly a marsh, but has now become a water domain (lake), with a circuit of 100 miles (much indented). There are hills all round, much rock and sand, and a poor soil, cold and barren, not worth cultivation.\"\n\nI gathered from the people who came to gossip as I stood on the wall overlooking the lake, that the water encroached to its present size only in 1858. Before that date there had been no more than an inundation of a narrow basin round the river in summer, much the greater part of the present area of the lake being planted with mao pui (identified at Kew as *Panicum frumentaceum* Roxb., *P. Crus-Galli* var.). The same year an attempt was made to drain the lake to the north-west, and a hill was cut through with that object; but the attempt failed, for hail or other like phenomena always stopped the work, showing that it was the will of Heaven that their fields should remain flooded. It is probable that the cause of the lake's extension is the blocking up of an underground channel as at T'ung-tzŭ Hsien (see last part of this Report).\n\nOn the way down to the lake at Wei-ning we noticed for the first time a deposit which is a distinctive feature of the Yunnan plateau—a loamy earth of a warm red colour which lies high up in the hills in sheltered places—in gullies, for instance—as well as on the floor of the valleys where it has been cut through by water as by a knife, leaving vertical sides often more than 100 feet in height. Sometimes it bears clear evidence of deposit by water and sometimes appears almost granular, so as to remind one of descriptions of the loess of Shansi. It has evidently never been subjected to pressure. Wherever it has been washed away limestone appears beneath. This bright-coloured earth, pleasant to walk and ride upon and well stocked with game, is one reason amongst many which make the plain of the Yunnan lakes a pleasant land to the European traveller.\n\nA large sheet of water is always interesting to dwellers in mid-continent; but this lake supplied us with bodily as well as mental food, so as to impress itself on the memory of the whole party; the water-fowl were easy to get at and of excellent flavour; while the question where all this water came from baffled comprehension and excited curiosity. A few miles to the south-west, at Lien-san-p'o, the road reaches an elevation of 7,770 feet, the highest point touched during the present journey, beyond which the country drains towards the K'o-tu River. On the north side the line of water parting appears to be only a few miles distant from the lake, and the lake is said to drain off towards the north-west. There may be very high land somewhere on the east to reward the traveller of the future's time to leave the road.\n\nFrom Lien-san-p'o to the K'o-tu River, a distance of about 27 miles, there is a descent of 2,550 feet. This stream is about 30 yards across where we passed it, but with a bed at least 100 yards broad, strewn with blocks of shale, sandstone, and limestone, but of no rocks of igneous or volcanic origin.\n\nThe boundary between the Yunnan and Kuei-chou Provinces is formed by a brook that joins the K'o-tu River on its left bank, and then by a range of hills that meets the river west of the crossing. The bridge referred to in the name K'o-tu-ch'iao is that over the brook. On the way down to the river we passed two human heads in cages, blackened by months' exposure. They had belonged to men in General Pao's force, who had plundered an officer's baggage. These heads had done good service, for the whole army had the advantage of passing within two yards of them.\n\nThe descent to the river much resembled that to the Ch'ih-shui River, but was shorter and steeper.\n\nAs soon as the K'o-tu River is crossed the inevitable ascent begins, and in 8 miles, covering an ascent of 2,100 feet, the water parting between the K'o-tu and the T'ang-t'ang streams is reached at an altitude of 7,420 feet above the sea; and a further 7 miles, covering a descent of 1,590 feet, the latter part very steep, bring us to the dilapidated village of T'ang-tang, once a famous mining township. There are many disused copper-mines, but very little is being done at present. The same story was told us here as everywhere else, that nothing was wanted but capital.\n\nI should have mentioned that on the 12th November, at Ta-che-p'ing we met numbers of Lolos, or, as they are here more politely called, I-chia (barbarian families) (see Lolo Vocabulary, No. 1). They are very numerous in this part of the plateau; the men wear the Chinese dress, and can usually speak Chinese. There being no mining to inspect at T'ang-tang, I went for a walk with my Chinese clerk to inquire about the Lolos, and if possible discover a man who could write their character, when, while standing in the dry bed of the stream that runs past the village, I saw a man riding down a mountain-path towards us on a good pony, with big brass stirrups, and two mounted servants behind him. A boy who was following me thereupon said, \"You were asking about the I-chia; look, there is the T'u-ssŭ (aboriginal Chief) coming into town.\" I went back to the inn at once, and sent my writer to make friends with the T'u-ssŭ, and, if possible, bring him in to see me, which he succeeded in doing.\n\nThe T'u-ssŭ was a heavy-featured, stolid man, with whom it was difficult to make way. After time and native spirit had taken the edge off his dulness and suspicion, he gave us an account of the wrongs he and his tribe had suffered lately at the hands of the Mahommedan Chinese who were encroaching on his lands, ending with a request that I would go and see a youth of his tribe who had just been half-killed in an affray. We found a youth of 18, who had just been brought into the village for treatment, lying on a leather mattress spread on the floor in the middle of the room, alongside a wood fire. He had bad sword cuts on the shin, knee, and wrist. The wounds had been covered by an aboriginal practitioner with a plaster of simples, which it would not have been prudent to remove, so I gave him the safe advice not to drink and smoke too much, and left some carbolic oil to be applied when the dressing was removed. The T'u-ssŭ was now my friend, and invited me to go back with him to his place in the country, within a few miles of which there lived, he said, a perma, or sorcerer, who could write the Lolo character.\n\nWhen I got up next morning it was raining cats and dogs. However, the chance was too good to be lost, so at 7 A.M. I went round with one servant. The T'u-ssŭ was in bed, and we had the pleasure of seeing him make his toilet. I was now very much afraid that he would delay our departure, because of the rain which was falling in torrents; not at all; our stolid friend walked straight out and had the horses brought round, without even remarking that it was raining. We followed a bridle-path that crossed torrents and wound round the edge of precipices, sometimes riding through water up to the horses' knees, sometimes toiling on foot through mud over the ankle. We had gone on thus for about three hours, but our host still said his house was far ahead. About 11 o'clock my servant urged that we could go no further, as we should not have time to get back to the inn, a matter of some importance to him, for he would not touch food in the houses of the Lolos, for fear of being poisoned. Just as I had decided that we must turn back we came in sight of a cottage, which our host indicated as the abode of his sorcerer, where I persuaded him to introduce us. The perma was unfortunately thirty miles away, officiating at a funeral, but his wife and brother were in the house, and five or six other Lolos soon arrived from cottages higher up the hill. The distance of the Chief's house still remaining an uncertain quantity I excused myself from going further, and set to work to learn what I could from the Lolos present.\n\nAs it was cold and we were wet through, wood was thrown on the fire, round which we sat eating walnuts—the only food to be got. The Chief lay down and smoked opium. About the sounds given in the Vocabulary (Lolo No. 2) of these people's language I am fairly confident, because the six or seven Lolos present were all agreed about them. The perma's brother, our host, could not write; but he professed to be able to pick out a character here and there in his brother's MSS. I copied the following characters from his indication, but he was not very clear about them, and they must be accepted with some doubt:\n\n# 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338540, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "page_number": 468, "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "content_text": "457 \n\nA piece of ground in dispute had been granted to a former Brown Lessee as part of Marine Lot A 185, and Inland Lot No. 38, but I may be allowed to mention that if the Judgment of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong had been carried out as it ought to have been by an examination of the ground and measurements and comparison of Mr. Danby's Plans and Report, admitted by him to be correct, it would have been clearly ascertained that the ground in question was never included in any former grant; and therefore, its having been taken away from me by the Officers of the Supreme Court, is not only contrary to the terms of the Brown Lease held by me, but contrary to the Court's own Decree.\n\nHad there been simply a mistake by the Surveyor General's department, it could and would have been easily adjusted by a return of premium and reduction of Brown Rent; but as it was well known to the Supreme Court from the unimpeachable evidence before it, that the Brown Lease was correct, and that the Plaintiff had more ground than was comprised in his lease, it thus became an unjustifiable act on the part of the Supreme Court to allow the paid Witness of the Plaintiff to execute the Decree of the Court without measurements, and not even upon oath.\n\nI am aware too that it has been stated that the Colonial Government offered me the encroachment of five feet on Witty Street in lieu of the 2 feet 2 inches taken from my Eastern Boundary. Your Lordship will hardly require any assurance that no such offer was made to me when I paid the Government only 25 cents per foot for the encroachment they allowed me to retain, while for the old Marine Lot No. 184, I paid more than $2 per foot for 3,600 square feet, and would have bought double the quantity at the same price had it been obtainable.\n\nIt has also been said that I pulled down the Plaintiff's wall which stood on my ground without giving him due notice, but that is sufficiently disproved by the correspondence and Affidavits filed in the Supreme Court, amongst which is an \"Authority\" from the Plaintiff to me to take down the Wall and charge him, the Plaintiff, with the cost.\n\nIt was part of this Wall which the Plaintiff, by his Surveyor, admitted was an encroachment which the Chief Justice said Plaintiff would not be justified in rebuilding, and yet for this, he, the Chief Justice, with these facts before him, mulcted me in $500 damages.\n\nIt may be, and it may be in your Lordship's power to ascertain this, that the Court was to a certain extent deceived by a building plan produced by the Plaintiffs, shewing a space on the Eastern and Western sides of the building; but the Court had allowed its own Judgment, and not Mr. Danby's ipse dixit, which is contrary to his own Plans and Report, to have taken effect, if...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339484, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "content_text": "# Appendix E.\n\nHONGKONG, 27th July, 1889.\n\n## Appendix E.\n\n**STATEMENT** shewing approximate cost of repairing Damages caused by the Rain-storm of 29th and 30th of May, within the City of Victoria.\n\nHon. SURVEYOR GENERAL,\n\nI forward herewith revised estimate for \"Repair of Storm damages.\" The present state of the work of repairs is as given below.\n\nCemetery. The nullah has been cleared, the dry rubble retaining walls have been re-built where they were washed away and raised near the lower boundary so as to retain the heap of sand that was partly washed down and partly taken out of the nullah, the mound itself has been formed and is being covered with earth.\n\nThe upper bridge has been restored.\n\nThe brick boundary wall has been re-built.\n\nThe arch of the bridge which carries the road between the Cemetery and race course is being repaired and will be completed in about 10 days.\n\nRace Course. The debris which has been taken out of the nullah and placed on the paddock will at once be levelled and formed as arranged with the Clerk of the Course.\n\nThe repairs of Bowrington bridges are in hand and will not be finished for two months, probably, as the foundations have to be put in as the tide allows.\n\n| Location | Description | Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Levelling Debris on Race Course | |\n| | Bridge at Bowrington, re-building | |\n| | Walls adjacent | |\n| | Slip at Bowringtou | |\n| | Sundry small jobs | |\n| Queen's Road near Naval Yard | | |\n| | Repair Upper part Albany Nullah,- Albany Nullah | |\n| | Repairs Parapet Bridge | |\n| Albany Nullah | work done by Military | |\n| fee House Lane | clearing | |\n| Zetland Street | clearing Street | |\n| | Do. do., renewing Road | |\n| | Clearing Pedder's Street and Wyndham Street | |\n\nAll slips and debris have been removed in the Eastern district and drains cleared the roads in Clearing Glenealy Ravine above the top of Wyndham Street up to the open Hill,... this part are in fairly good order the necessary repairs are being carried out.\n\nAlbany Nullah-The temporary bamboo bridge on the Queen's Road has been removed and the water is running again under the stone arch. The clearing of the debris is going on quickly and expect to have the nullah clear in about 3 weeks.\n\nThe repairs to the parapet of the bridge have not yet been put in hand.\n\n### Names of Place damaged.\n\n| Location | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cemetery | 547 |\n| Re-building Rubble Walls | 170 |\n| Forming Mound and re-making Paths | 150 |\n| Re-building Walls of Upper Bridge and re-fixing Bridge | 155 |\n| Re-building portion of Lower Bridge | 60 |\n| Re-building Boundary Wall | 153 |\n| | 230 |\n| | 1,465 |\n| | 1,300 |\n| Naval Hospital | 526 |\n| | 398 |\n| Nullah Lane, Wauchai Road, including Branch Nullah, Ship Street | 592 |\n| | 340 |\n| | 100 |\n| | 1,956 |\n| | 480 |\n| | 3,000 |\n| | 1,460 |\n| | 100 |\n| | 7,040 |\n| | 384 |\n| | 430 |\n| | 300 |\n| | 364 |\n| | 2,256 |\n| | 1,205 |\n| Covering in Drain from the sea to the bottom of Wyndham Street and making good Paving, &c. | 482 |\n| Repairing Sewer in Wyndham Street to the bottom of Glenealy | 1,010 |\n| Repairing Sewer in Glenealy including taking up and re-setting Steps,... Making open Nullah above the Caine Road | 2,360 |\n| | 5,000 |\n| Re-building all retaining Walls, Glenealy | 2,200 |\n| Making good Paths, filling in large Holes, &c.... | 2,500 |\n| | 18,107 |\n| | 35 |\n| | 37 |\n| | 200 |\n| | 90 |\n| | 290 |\n| | 90 |\n| | 50 |\n| | 160 |\n| | 100 |\n| | 180 |\n| | 228 |\n| | 172 |\n| Queen's Road West | 91 |\n| | 160 |\n| Re-building Drain | 162 |\n| | 160 |\n| Drain on Road below Nullah Side | |\n| Re-building granite culvert High Street, Nullah Side | 980 |\n| | 100 |\n| Western Nullah | 11 |\n| Shektougtsui Nullah | |\n| Repairing Drain and Road, Western Nullah | 414 |\n| | 26 |\n| Repairs Upper Richmond Road | 190 |\n| and Lower Richmond Road, clearing | 45 |\n| | 276 |\n| Robinson Road | 68 |\n| | 54 |\n| Staunton Street | 27 |\n| | 16 |\n| | 36 |\n| | 10 |\n| | 25 |\n| | 178 |\n| | 135 |\n| | 86 |\n| | 4,884 |\n| | 2,000 |\n\nGlenealy, Wyndham Street and Pedder's Street.--The repairs in Pedder's Street are very nearly finished the remainder of the paving stones of the footpath will be relaid in a few days, and this will complete every thing.\n\nThe two holes in the drain opposite the Club in Wyndham Street will be finished and the road made good certainly in a week.\n\nIt will be necessary to open another place in the drain near the German Club to repair the invert but this will not be open more than a week.\n\nThe repairs of the drain above this point as far as and including the hole in the Caine Road are in hand and should be finished nearly in two months.\n\nThe bank which carries the path which has been carried away just below the Caine Road is being renewed and should be completed in about six weeks.\n\nA contract is being made for the repairs of the nullah above Caine Road.\n\nThe large open nullah above where the ventilator stands has been repaired where necessary is in good order.\n\nThe repairs of the roads in the Central part of the town are being carried on.\n\nWestern District. To the west the only piece of building that remains to be done is the re-building of the drain under High Street. A contract has been made for this and the work will be carried out at once. All debris has been removed and inlets to drains and drains have been cleared in the Western district the roads in this district being steep have suffered a great deal. The repairs are in hand.\n\n| Location | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hollywood Road | |\n| Elgin Street, Shelley Street, Seymour Rond | |\n| Castle Road | |\n| Peel Street and Queen's Road | |\n| Hospital Road | |\n| Bonham Road, Pokfulam Road | |\n| West end of Third Street | |\n| Centre Street | |\n| Praya West, clearing | |\n| Chinese Hospital, clearing and examining | |\n| Nullah Side | |\n| Renewing Road | |\n| Caine Road | |\n| Lyndhurst Terrace | |\n| Clearing Inlet of Culvert near Western Street on Bonham Road | |\n| Clearing Inlet Sand Street Sewer | |\n| Smithfield Street, Sand Street Sewer | |\n| Do. | |\n| Davis Street, Sand Street Sewer | |\n| Do. | |\n| Filling in and repairing Smithfield Street, &c., Skle Channel | |\n| Clearing Landslip, Mount Davis Road | |\n| Minor Repairs to Roads | |\n| Total | 37,136 |\n\n**H. CHAMPERNOWNE, Lieut.-Colonel, R.E.**\n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "content_text": "## Civil Hospital Staff Quarters\nThis (14) building is nearly completed. Some information appears necessary. Consultation with the Colonial Surgeon before replying to Secretary of State's despatch No. 39, Section 10.\n\n## Civil Hospital alterations and Additions\nThe sum of $4,631 includes the cost of removing the stone wall on the South side of the Hospital premises and erecting railing in its place.\n\n1. ...\n2. Boundary wall round Hospital grounds\n3. Raising the wall on the North side of the Hospital premises.\n4. Cook house and coolie quarters for Lock Hospital.\n5. Improved Lavatory and bath accommodation.\n6. Minor improvements.\n\n232\n\nThe necessity for these works will not be obviated by the utilization of the Staff Quarters for the treatment of patients. Secretary of State's Despatch 39 Section 10.\n\n## Aberdeen Police Station\nThis building is now nearly completed.\n\n## Police Station Quarry Bay\nThis building is completed, but the sum due to the contractor on the expiration of the term of maintenance requires providing for in next year's estimates.\n\n## District School Cornwall\nPlans and Estimates have been prepared for this work, but they have not yet been submitted to the Public Works Committee. Tenders have been received, but they exceed the estimated cost.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348460, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 95. \nThe building consisting of three slaughter houses, one exclusively for the use of Indians, the others for the killing of cattle, sheep, and pigs; three sheds for the accommodation of animals to be slaughtered, office, coolie quarters, and out-buildings covers an area of 8,615 square feet and is approaching completion.\n\n## 96. \nPublic Laundries.-A site 17,660 square feet in area has been selected for the construction of ten public laundries on Kennedy Road, Wanchai.\n\n## 97. \nThese laundries, consisting of two living rooms, cook house, washing, drying, and ironing rooms, are being erected by Mr. TSANG SAM under `contract (1)`. Good progress has been made with the work, and the laundries will shortly be ready for occupation.\n\n## 98. \nPublic Latrines.--Previous to the past year, very inadequate latrine accommodation existed in the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon. To meet this want, ten cast-iron latrines obtained from Messrs. MACFARLANE & Co. of Glasgow have been erected in the villages of Stanley, Shaukiwan, Aplichau, Hung Hom, and Yaumati. They appear to meet the requirements of the native population and will doubtless improve the sanitary condition of the villages.\n\n## 99. \nLatrines were also completed in June last in Jardine's Bazaar and Poyan Street. The former covers an area of 540 square feet and the latter an area of 770 square feet.\n\n## 100. \nCivil Hospital Staff Quarters.-This building is situated at the corner of High Street at its junction with Eastern Street and occupies a site 21,114 square feet in area. The building is two stories in height and consists of 10 bed rooms, 5 sitting rooms, an office, and one dining room with the necessary servants' quarters, bath, and lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 101. \nIn addition to the above, a chemical laboratory 41 feet by 21.4 feet and store rooms have been provided.\n\n## 102. \nA `contract (3)` was entered into with Mr. TSANG KENG in November, 1889, for its erection, the time fixed for its completion being May, 1891. I regret, however, that owing to what appears to be inexcusable delay on the part of the contractor, this building is not yet completed, though in a very advanced stage.\n\n## 103. \nCivil Hospital Coolie Quarters-Commenced in July, 1890, the `contract ()` being obtained by Mr. Wo SING, were completed in April, 1891. This building occupies a site (2,800 square feet) within the Hospital compound and is two stories in height, consisting of 7 rooms with the necessary bath, lavatory, and kitchen accommodation.\n\n## 104. \nCivil Hospital alterations and additions.-Under this heading, the necessary boiler house, boiler, and piping have been provided and erected for supplying hot water to the bathrooms, lavatories, and kitchen throughout the Civil Hospital main buildings.\n\n## 105. \nThe contract for this work was obtained by Messrs. FENWICK & Co. in May last and has been satisfactorily completed at a cost of $850.\n\n## 106. \nThe retaining wall on the northern boundary has been built, and a few minor improvements have also been carried out.\n\n## 107. \nLunatic Asylum for Chinese.-This building, situated in High Street, occupies an area of 11,700 square feet, including an airing court of 5,650 square feet, was commenced in April, 1890, by Mr. YEE HING under `contract (48)` and satisfactorily completed in July, 1891.\n\n## 108. \nThe building is two stories in height, in addition to a 7-foot basement, and consists of 4 day rooms and 16 single cells, four of which are padded. Four rooms are provided for the attendants and office, as well as the necessary servants' quarters, kitchen, bath, and lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 109. \nPolice Station Aberdeen-Commenced by Mr. SOON LOONG in October, 1890, under `contract (38)`, is situated near the eastern end of the village on an elevated site having a southern aspect, has been satisfactorily completed.\n\n## 110. \nThis building is two stories in height with a 4-foot basement and is built of brickwork with stone dressings.\n\n## 111. \nThe accommodation provided consists of 3 rooms for a married Inspector, mess-room and barrack-room for 4 European Constables, barrack-rooms for 6 Sikh Constables, 8 Chinese Constables, and 6 Water Police with lavatory and bath accommodation, 4 cells, charge room, stables, store-rooms, servants' quarters, and kitchens.\n\n## 112. \nThe site is divided into two terraces, the stables, store-rooms, &c. being placed on the lower and the remaining buildings on the upper.\n\n## 113. \nPolice Station at Quarry Bay-Occupying an elevated site on the western side of Quarry Bay, 4,340 square feet in area, is a one-storied building containing 2 rooms, store-room, and 2 cells. Detached from the main building but approached by a covered way are the kitchens, servants' quarters, and offices. This building was commenced in November, 1890, and completed in July last by Mr. CHAN A TONG under `contract (8)`.\n\n## 114. \nKennedytown Police Station.-The sum of $2,000 has been expended in erecting a retaining wall at the back of the building and cutting away the steep hill side, which had commenced to slip.\n\n## 115. \nDistrict School Sai-ying-poon.-This school is situated at the junction of High Street with Pokfulam Road and was commenced in September, 1890. It occupies an area of 6,530 square feet. Three class rooms are provided and fitted up to accommodate 186 children. Quarters have been provided for a coolie and the necessary kitchen accommodation and offices. The work has been carried out by Mr. YEUNG A TING under `contract (11)` and was completed in June last.\n\n## 116. \nAdditions to Government House-Erected from the designs of Messrs. PALMER & TURNER and under their supervision, was commenced in April, 1890, consist of a ball room 60 feet by 40 feet, supper, card, and billiard rooms, and other accessories, is situated at the eastern end of Government House and occupies a site 2,700 square feet in area.\n\n## 117. \nThe building, with the exception of the decorations and lighting, was completed in September last. A contract has been entered into with the Electric Company for lighting this portion of Government House with electricity.\n\n## 118. \nThe installation of the Electric Light has been commenced and consists of 138 incandescent lamps of a total candle-power amounting to upwards of 2,600.\n\n## 119. \nThe alternating current for supplying these lamps will be taken from the Electric Company's house-lighting mains at a pressure of 2,000 volts and will be reduced by a transformer placed in the building to a pressure of 100 volts for the purposes of lighting the lamps.\n\n## 120. \nAll wires used in the building will be insulated with vulcanized india-rubber protected by a braided covering and laid in hard wood casings; the sizes of the wires employed varying, as the number of lamps supplied, from a strand of 19 No. 16 B. W. G. copper wires to 1 No. 18 B. W. G. copper wire for a single lamp.\n\n## 121. \nThe amount of electric energy consumed will be measured by meters placed in the building, the charge being 35 cents per 1,000 watt-hours, at which rate it is estimated that the lighting will cost about $3.50 per hour for current when all the lamps are alight.\n\n## 122. \nThe estimated initial cost of Installation is dollars four thousand three hundred and eighty-one and cents fifty. ($4,381.50.)\n\n## 123. \nOn the completion of the electric installation, it is proposed to proceed with the internal decoration of the building.\n\n## 124. \nQuarters for Superintendent, Botanical & Afforestation Department.-This building, situated at the junction of the Albany and Robinson Roads, occupying an area of 7,920 square feet, is two stories in height. On the ground floor is an herbarium 44 feet by 22 feet, 2 offices, and 2 store rooms; on the upper floor are the Superintendent's private quarters. Work was commenced in March last by Mr. YEE HING under `contract (4)` and the building is now nearly completed.\n\n## 125. \nPier Stone Cutters' Island.-A substantial timber pier has been constructed on the northern shore of Stone Cutters' Island opposite the Powder Magazine. The pier is 176 feet in length and has a floor area of 1,930 square feet. This work was carried out by Mr. CHAN A TSAN under `contract (3)` entered into in November, 1890, and completed in March, 1891.\n\n## 126. \nThe reconstruction of the Governor's Peak Residence; Magazine for Explosives, Stone Cutters' Island; Shaukiwan Market Extension; and Lowering Queen's Road West, have not yet been proceeded with.\n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY WORKS\n\n## 127. \nThe Vaccine Institute-is being erected on a site 4,800 square feet in area immediately north of the Kennedy Road at its western end. The buildings are one story in height and comprise a waiting room, operating room, quarters for a caretaker, and the necessary cook houses and offices. To the north of the main building but connected by a covered way across a yard 33 feet in width are situated 20 stalls for calves and the necessary fodder store.\n\n## 128. \nYaumati Praya Wall.-During the gale of July last, the southern portion of the Yaumati Praya Wall, 750 lineal feet in length, was carried away, and the Praya roadway at this point considerably damaged. A `contract (1)` was entered into with Mr. TSANG SAM in September last for the reconstruction of the wall and repair of the roadway. The amount of this contract was $5,508.10, and the time for its completion July, 1892. Fair progress has been made with this work.\n\n... \nPage 2 \n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 688, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# KOWLOON EAST & DOCK\n## B.S. Nay\n### MR.S.4.\nHUNG HAM R.S.3\n\n5.4.42\n0.8.9.31.545\nB-5.NS\nKOWLOON DOCK\n\n| B.S. | Location Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 6 | On the HW Line close to Cactus hedge where small path opens out on Beach W of E. side of Pier and 63 feet from it |\n| 5 | On the East side of N & Corner of Stone block consisting of four Houses |\n| 4 | 292 feet from S. E end of roof of small Cottages in an easterly direction, situated in the midst of Cactus plant |\n| 3 | On high ground S. E. of No3 at junction of small paths |\n| 2 | 50 feet from Road at the E. side of N. & Corner of row of Houses |\n| 1 | Beside Stone Marking N. boundary of Kowloon Dock Property, Same as Boundary Stone No 24 |\n\n## ROUGH STONE PIER\n\n### References\n- War Department Land tinted Lake\n- Military Reserve Boundary\n\nScale: 1 inch = 200 ft\n\n| Person | Signature | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| J. M. Glubb | (Sig1) | 24.12.91 |\n| to. H. Molloy | (Lignes) | 18.3.92 |\n| Francis le looper | (Signed) | 24.3.92 |\n\nLuwaps Ceneral \nCol. c. R. E.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367604, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "content_text": "## NEW BOUNDARY LINE.\n\nC. O. \n22103 \n7 \nRep? Pat & TOT 33 \n\nThe boundary line indicated on the small scale map which is attached to the Convention and which was copied by the leading London papers is the shortest line from sea to sea that could be found measuring in a direct line on the map only 11 miles. The actual distance however following the tidal river from Deep Bay up to Sham Chun and then taking the existing path up to Starling Inlet head is about 13 miles.\n\nThis line cuts the rich valley, in the centre of which Sham Chun lies, in two, and is therefore open to much objection. The villages which abound in this valley are linked together by mutual interests and family ties. They are separated as far as the river extends by only about 100 feet of a tidal stream, and from Sam Chun to Starling Inlet by no natural boundary. They all look to Sham Chun as their central and most important market town to which they resort to dispose of their surplus produce and to purchase imported goods. It seems to me that much difficulty might arise if villages one side of a road or stream were under English rule, and those on the other under Chinese.\n\nThe main industry of the valley moreover is the cultivation of rice, for which an ample and constant supply of water is essentially necessary; in dry seasons disputes as to water rights between English and Chinese villages would inevitably arise and be difficult of settlement.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388155, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Part II. PUBLIC HEALTH\n\nSection 54 (4) gives compensation for the compulsory slaughter of infected animals which have been bred in the Colony.\n\nSection 56 provides that animals brought to the Colony to be slaughtered for food shall not be kept in any Government Depôt for a longer period than twenty-one days, and that if condemned by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon as unfit for food, they shall be removed forthwith.\n\nSection 75 (6) authorizes the Governor to cancel the lease of a stall in a Government market if the lessee has been convicted of a breach of the Bye-laws for the regulation and sanitary maintenance of markets.\n\nSection 82 makes the procedure for dealing with unwholesome food in markets and public places the same as with such food in shops and private premises (cf. s. 83). The destruction of unwholesome food may now be ordered by the President instead of by the Board, on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health or of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.\n\nSection 88.---Public vehicles may not be knowingly used for the conveyance of persons suffering from an infectious disease; if any such vehicle is so used, power is given to detain it until it has been satisfactorily disinfected.\n\nSection 89.---The Board may recover the cost of the disinfection of infected premises, and may (shall in certain cases) give compensation for articles destroyed in such process.\n\n## Part III. BUILDINGS\n\nSection 100.---Blue bricks may be used only in the uppermost storey of a building instead of in the two uppermost storeys.\n\nSection 101 (1).---The thickness of the walls of new buildings in relation to their height is somewhat increased.\n\nThe following comparative scale shows the proposed increases in thickness:\n\n| PRESENT SCALE | PROPOSED SCALE |\n| --- | --- |\n| For walls not exceeding 40 feet in length, clear of a cross wall. | |\n| Height of Wall | Thickness of Wall |\n| 12 feet | 9 inches |\n| 12-25 feet | 13½ inches |\n| 25-40 feet | 18 inches in lowermost storey and 13½ inches for the rest |\n| Height of Wall | Thickness of Wall |\n| 12 feet | 18½ inches |\n| 12-25 feet | 18½ inches |\n| 40-50 feet | 22 inches in lowermost storey and 18 inches for the rest |\n| 40-55 feet | 22 inches in the two lowermost storeys and 13½ inches for the rest |\n| 50-60 feet | 22 inches in the two lower-most Storeys and 18 inches for the rest |\n| 55-70 feet | 22 inches in lowermost storey, 18 inches in two next above and 13½ inches for the rest |\n| 70-80 feet | 27 inches in lowermost storey, 22 inches in the next above, 18 inches in the next storey and 13½ inches for the rest |\n| 70-80 feet | 31 inches in lowermost storey, 27 inches in the next above, 22 inches in the next, 18 inches in the next, and 13½ inches for the rest |\n\nNo storey shall exceed 15 feet in height without the permission of the Building Authority.\n\nWalls more than 40 feet in length clear of a cross wall shall be increased 4½ inches in thickness beyond the above scale.\n\nSection 102 (1).---No wall shall exceed 60 feet in length clear of a cross wall without the consent of the Building Authority (with the exception of boundary walls); the limit under the present law is 35 feet.\n\n(2).---A wall may not exceed 76 feet in height without the approval of the Building Authority; the present law says 80 feet but in that case the height of the wall is measured from the top of the footings whereas it is now proposed to measure it from the level of the adjacent foot-path or street. [cf. also s. 188 (5).]\n\n(3) requires tie-rods for all external walls exceeding 30 feet in length, clear of a cross wall.\n\nSection 107 requires the side wall of a corner building having a shop front to be returned for a distance of nine inches in buildings of not more than one storey, whereas the present law requires only six inches.\n\nSection 108.---Lath-and-plaster and other hollow walls are prohibited outside the European Reservation and the Hill District except by permission of the Building Authority.\n\nSection 109.---New walls are required to have suitable bonding.\n\nSection 112 requires the renewal of the impervious covering to ground surfaces, when such has perished.\n\nSection 118.---The level of the ground floor of every new building must be at least six inches higher than the level of the ground outside such building.\n\nSection 116.---The ground storey of every new building shall be at least twelve feet high and every upper storey shall be at least eleven feet high; coolie quarters, bath-room, kitchens and latrines need only be nine feet high. The present law requires a height of at least nine feet in all cases.\n\nSection 117.---Boarded floors in a ground storey of a new building shall be at least two and a half feet (average) above the ground level, and ventilating openings in the walls shall be protected by gratings for the exclusion of rats.\n\nSection 119.---All wooden floors hereafter constructed shall be made reasonably water-tight.\n\nSection 120.---The floors of new buildings outside the European Reservation and Hill District shall have cement skirtings twelve inches high.\n\nSection 121.---All staircases hereafter constructed shall have a tread of at least eight inches and a rise of not more than eight and a half inches per step.\n\nSection 122.---New ceilings are prohibited outside the European Reservation and Hill District, except by permission of the Building Authority.\n\nSection 123.---Corbels shall be set in cement mortar.\n\nSection 132 requires the floors of verandahs and balconies to be supplied with gutters and downpipes.\n\nSection 136.---No balcony shall hereafter be projected from any building which exceeds 1 times in height, the width of the street on which it fronts.\n\nSection 139 contains a new prohibition as to the enclosure of verandahs or balconies by blinds at night.\n\nSection 140.---Adequate kitchen accommodation shall be provided in all domestic buildings. The internal surface of the walls of all such kitchens shall be rendered in cement mortar to a height of four feet from the floor.\n\nSection 141.---The kitchens of tenement houses hereafter erected shall only extend across half the width of the house, except in the case of corner houses.\n\nSection 143.---Hoods for charcoal fires shall be of sheet metal—the alternative of a lath-and-plaster hood having been deleted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389383, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 286, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Extract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" dated 4th August, 1903\n\n## PREVENTION OF PLAGUE\n\n## THE EXPERIMENTAL BLOCK\n\nYesterday afternoon His Excellency the Governor Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G. formally handed back to the Sanitary Board the block of 16 tenement houses in Second and Third Streets which he had taken over with a view to the carrying out of experimental measures for the prevention of plague as well as new methods of cleansing. The block in question consisted of 253 houses, with 614 floors and a population of 7,701 people. To begin with, the south side of Second Street and the north side of Third Street, between Eastern Street and Western Street, were taken over at the end of April. The first thing set about was the erection of hot water tanks of over 300 gallons capacity each, in Wei On Lane, Tak Sing Lane, and Sheung Fung Lane. These tanks were used by the inhabitants of the district for dipping their bed-boards and such other furniture as would be likely to harbour vermin. Attached to the same furnaces which heated the tanks were bath-houses, two for men and two for women. A systematic cleansing-out of each house was then undertaken by the people themselves, under the supervision of Police Inspector J. H. Gidley. From nine to twelve floors were washed out each day. About the middle of May both sides of Second and Third Streets between Eastern and Western Streets, and all the lanes and cross-streets within that boundary, were taken in hand and treated in the same way. Latterly an empty house in the district was engaged and fitted up as a temporary hospital, and in the event of infectious disease occurring the patient was removed there and the people living in the same house, after washing it out and disinfecting their clothing, etc., were allowed to remain in it. For the purposes of carrying out the scheme, a Kaifong was elected by the community of that district, and they lent valuable assistance to the authorities in the work.\n\nThe ceremony of handing back the block to the Sanitary Board took place at noon in Second Street, at the point where it is crossed by Centre Street. H.E. the Governor was accompanied by Lady Blake and Sir John Keswick, A.D.C.; and there were also present Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, P.C.M.O., President of the Sanitary Board; Hon. W. Chatham, D.P.W., Vice-President; Hon. F. H. May, Colonial Secretary; Mr. Fung Wa Chun, Mr. Ho Kum Tong, Inspector Gidley, and the members of the Kaifong. Before the proceedings began a photograph of the group was taken.\n\n## HIS EXCELLENCY said\n\nDr. Atkinson, Mr. Chatham, and Mr. Fung Wa Chun—I am about to hand back to you this block of buildings that over three months ago you handed to me, to see whether I could get the Chinese people to help themselves and assist in sanitary measures. When I came down here three months ago I was by no means certain that the experiment upon which I had determined to enter would be a success. I asked the people, the leading men of the two streets, to form a Kaifong, and seventeen of them came forward for that purpose. I now take this opportunity of thanking these seventeen respectable men, who have assisted me during these three months. Among these men I would especially mention the names of Chan Ki, Chak Cheung, Wong Wah, and Tiu Wi, whom I always found foremost in the good work of teaching the people how best to help themselves in fighting this terrible epidemic of plague. When I came here I promised the people that if they would clean their houses and if they would give notice of cases of disease, those who were affected by plague should be treated in their own houses, and I promised also that they should have tanks in which to dip their bed-boards and furniture, and bath-houses in which to wash themselves and enable them to keep themselves clean.\n\nBefore we could get the baths and tanks erected, I came down, and within three days I found the whole of the furniture of this street put on the street, and the people themselves had already begun to clean and wash their houses as well as they could. I have not a full account of all the people who used the baths during these three months, but 27,255 people have been noted as using these baths. The district that the Kaifong have been looking after consists of 253 houses, with 614 floors, and with a population of 7,701 people. I am told by Inspector Gidley, who deserves the thanks of the public for the way in which he has worked for the last three months, that he and the Kaifong had no difficulty in getting the people to turn out their houses, and to do whatever they were recommended by him to do in the way of disinfection and cleanliness. Mr. Fung Wa Chun my thanks are also due for the constant care that he has exercised in the supervision of the block; and to show the spirit in which this experiment was taken up by various people, I may say that within a week of taking over the block Mr. Ho Kum Tong handed to Inspector Gidley $200 to be distributed among the destitute people left by those who might be taken away by the plague. The landlords of the houses required for the baths not alone had the houses at once evacuated and handed over to me, but they one and all refused to take any rent for the houses for the two months, and two landlords, Yu Shan Tin and Wong Chun Chao, have refused to take any rent at all for their houses up to the present. No country could show a greater public spirit than this, for it must be remembered that these landlords are not rich men owning large properties, but are the landlords that live among you and own these small tenements in the district. I thank them most heartily for the public spirit which they have shown. Now, coming to the incidence of plague during the last three months, one of the principal duties...\n\nPage 353 \nREUT \nRG. 24 SEP 03! \n284", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391295, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "cliffs, to the sides of which clung coniferæ, while at their feet were rich forests of bamboo. On every side was heard the gurgle of mountain streams, while, here and there, were grottos full of great icicles. After three hours' march we crossed a low col and came to an open patch in the forest where the salt caravans rest, and soon after reached the crest of the range, and descended along a deep cleft in the west flank of the mountain, whence occasional glimpses of the trans-Mekong range were to be had. At 8,500 feet we emerged into more open country, between two vast cultivated spurs, with villages of mud and wattle huts perched on impossible ledges, and accessible only by paths fit for goats. A succession of bold and magnificent mountain views was unfolded, until from the gorge far beneath us we saw a column of smoke rising up from the salt wells of La Shi, to which we descended, and put up in a temple commanding a view of the little town situated in the depths of the gorge, and containing about 400 houses. Some eighty families are engaged in cooking the salt, and each can produce about 550 lbs. per day. The transport of these and other wells near is in the hands of Pei Ti Ping mule-owners, who are, in many cases, of the gentler sex. At La Shi there is one small street of shops, supplied by Szechuan pedlars. A stream runs down the bottom of the gorge, and the wooden huts of the salt boilers cling along its sides.\n\nFrom Lashi we continued along a narrow path on the south side of the gorge, sometimes by the stream and sometimes high above it, and sometimes making detours to the left to get round side ravines. Soon after passing the Minchia village of Wan Ten, we caught sight of the Mekong, and descended to the little market of Ying Pan Kai. There is no ferry to the other side (west or right bank), but only a bamboo rope sling.\n\nThe sons of the late General Yang Yi Kuo live and rule at Ying Pan. Their attitude was so unfriendly that we moved a mile to the south of the market and camped by the farmstead of a hospitable Minchia, some 500 feet above the river, which is here ... feet broad, of a rich deep blue, and with a strong, but not violent, current. On the opposite side of the river, no less than seven great spurs, any one of which would be considered a first-class mountain in Europe, descend sheer to the river. The little villages, half hidden in their folds, looked like rabbit-hutches. Nature here works on her grand scale, and man and his works are reduced to insignificance.\n\nYing Pan and the Lashi Wells are under the direct control of the Lichiang Magistrate, whose ordinary jurisdiction also extends down the east or left bank of the Mekong to Hsiao Tsa Tsu, 13 miles south of Ying Pan. The fringe of villages on the lower slopes of the mountains on the west or right bank, together with the left bank south of Hsiao Tsa Tsu and north of the Yün Lung Chou boundary, are under the control of a t'u ssu or hereditary Chief, known as Lo t'u kuan. He is a native of Lan chou and a Minchia, but his official residence is at Tu Wo (see below) on the right bank. The upper slopes of the great range on the west of the Mekong, opposite Ying Pan, are inhabited by Lou Tzu, a tribe described by the Chinese officials as utter savages, who live by rapine, and nothing else. But the mandarins commonly speak in these terms of any non-Chinese who object to being controlled or squeezed by the Celestial Government. The Lou Tzu enjoy a wild independence in these inaccessible mountains, and are not above an occasional raid. Last year they crossed the Upper Mekong and looted the Wei Hsi official when he was on his way to his post. The Lou Tzu, the Lisaw, and the Minchia on the banks of the Mekong use cross-bows which shoot a poisoned arrow about 1 foot long. The poison looks like putty, and Chinese informed me that it is a species of \"u t'ou\" or taro, which causes paralysis and speedy death if it enters the blood. To be efficacious the poison has to be gathered at the tops of the mountains and in the dead of night, \"light Hecate's root of hemlock digged in the dark.\"\n\nWhen I passed by, Lo t'u kuan (the Minchia hereditary official) was on the war-path against the Lou Tzu, but his attempts to bring them under control were meeting with no success save that he had burned one village which had refused to accede to his extortionate demands for tribute; it seems that a sort of \"war\" is always going on in these hills, yet Chinese traders occasionally penetrate into them, and the Lou Tzu occasionally come out to the Ying pan to exchange gold, drugs, beeswax, skins, hemp, and lacquer against salt, cottons, tobacco, &c.\n\nFrom Ying pan down the banks of the Mekong to the Fei Lung Bridge is a march of five days (64 miles) along the precipitous sides of the river bank, between the vast ranges which press close to the water on both sides. On the first day we reached the village of Hsiao Tsa Chu (12 miles) the narrow path leading up and down high above the river through magnificent scenery, bare and imposing. We met several bands of Lisaw women in their shell-embroidered caps and hempen kilts; they live chiefly on the west bank, the few villages on the east bank being Minchia. Just before reaching our stage progress was blocked by a formidable razor-like ridge of limestone projecting into the Mekong, and round which the river makes a bend and forms a rapid. This obstacle was only passable by a narrow and dizzy path, and the mules had to make a detour round the hills at the back. Hsiao Tsa Tsu consists of a dozen log huts, situated on a slope steep as the roof of a house, and we only just found room for a tent by a small temple built in Chinese fashion and dedicated to \"the Black God of the Hills.\" The Headman was friendly, and, after a day's rest, he guided us along a path which ascended through a wilderness of mountains till we were 1,600 feet above the river, while above us were vast slopes and precipices with their summits crowned with snow; then descending past the log huts and narrow rice terraces of Shi Ping, we descended to a comfortable camp by the banks of the river near the village of Lamati. Here we found a double bamboo rope sling across the river, and a primitive \"dug-out\" or rather \"burnt-out\" boat made of the trunks of two trees hollowed out by fire and lashed together. A number of Minchia women crossed in the evening with loads of salt and tobacco on their backs, for villages on the west side. On the following morning the water was so cold that the mules refused for a long time to cross, and we were not all landed on the west bank till 10 A.M. At this point we joined Prince Henri of Orleans' route from Fei Lung Bridge north to Atentse.\n\nFollowing the narrow path down the west bank, through a fringe of trees about 50 feet above the river, we soon reached a difficult corner, where to encourage us the guide informed me that Prince Henri had lost two mules overboard into the river. 3 miles from La Mati the country on the west bank opens out a little and forms the valley of Tu Wo, where there is considerable padi cultivation. The few places available for rice terraces along all this part of the Mekong are carefully cultivated, and the rice is of excellent quality.\n\nThe village of Tu Wo, the capital of Lo t'u kuan, consists of about 100 log huts, and a small yamên built on a ridge in the valley. The population consists of Lisaw, Minchia, and a few Chinese. In the afternoon's march the mountains closed in again to the riverside, and we had to feel our way along and round the edge of a beetling cliff. It was like walking round the neck of a champagne bottle; the loads had to be carried on men's backs and the mules led. It was with a feeling of relief that we reached our camp at the little village of Ku Li. After passing Tu Wo we constantly met bands of traders, some of whom had been among the Lou Tzu and the Lisaw of the Upper Salwen, and some of whom had been to Teng Yueh. From Tu Wo there is a path leading west into the hills; indeed, difficult though the country is, there are communications in all directions, and the natives seem to consider any slope less than 45° as level-going. The Tu Wo traders clad in hemp, armed with broad swords in univalve scabbards, and cross-bows with quivers of poisoned arrows, look far more ferocious than they really are. Many wear haversacks like the Kachins, but without the embroidery, people here know the Salwen not as the Lu Chiang, the ordinary Yünnan name, but as the Hei Lung Chiang (\"Black Dragon River\").\n\nAfter edging round a difficult cliff just south of Ku Li, we got into more open country, where the river makes a series of majestic curves, and horse-shoe shaped valleys on the west bank admit of cultivation.\n\nThe most considerable of these is the Valley of Piao Tsuen. The village is situated 1 mile back from the river and has 150 mud and log huts, enclosed by an old mud wall.\n\nWe here passed out of the jurisdiction of Lo t'u kuan and entered that of the Yun Lang Sub-Prefect. From Piao Tsuen there is a well-beaten track west up into the hills past the village of Sung Ping, and so to the Salwen at Luku, the wild Lou Tzu not extending so far south as this.\n\nIn the afternoon we got round another formidable cliff, and camped at the little river bank hamlet of Tsao Yao, where we saw Chinese Proclamations for the first time since leaving the salt wells. One poster by the Provincial Judge was noticeable. It warned the non-Chinese inhabitants of Yunnan generally against practising the gentle arts of witch-craft and poisoning.\n\nThe people of Tsao Yao go to market at the Fei Lung Bridge, but for our tired caravan it was too long a march, and after passing through forest and long grass along a fair track high above the river for 15 miles without seeing a human habitation except the deserted guard-house of Tie Men, perched on the top of a cliff, we camped at Iron gate. Miao Wei, a village of some fifty houses, situated on a broad cultivated terrace high above the Mekong, and commanding a superb view of the great precipices which hang over the east bank.\n\n[2021 A-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395035, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "country is uninhabited and impassable. The Ni Mo is clearly the Lamaw tributary of the N'maikha, as \"l\" and \"n\" are interchangeable in Chinese.\n\nThe district round Pien Ma and I Tung, situated to the north-east of Ch'a Shan, is known to the Chinese as I Shan (hills of the barbarians). The lower country near the N'maikha is referred to by the Chinese as Langsu. I did not meet any Ming Kwang people who had actually been to Langsu, but they all described it as hot, feverish, and inhabited by wild men (i.e., Kachins), who rob travellers, who do not know the use of money, and who are under no sort of control by any Government. The Ch'a Shan and T Shan, however, which seem to comprise the whole of the upper country (on the N'maikha side of the divide) near the various head-waters of the Shweli are constantly visited by Chinese from Ming Kwang.\n\nAs I wished to examine the path from the Ming Kwang Valley to Tzu Chu, I moved my camp back on my tracks to the point 5 miles from Ta Chai, where the Hsiao Tang Ho joins the Ta Ho, and, on the 16th March, the first fine day for a week, we marched up the valley of the Hsiao Tang Ho.\n\nThis is a wide (2 miles) and beautiful valley, the combination of snow, pine trees, and rich green forests of bamboos on the mountain sides contrasting with the rushing stream and the pastures and bracken by its banks.\n\nThere were several large herds of cattle, sheep, and ponies, and in the bracken I shot six brace of pheasants (Stone's) in a very short time. At 3 miles from Ming Kwang Valley, after passing a tumble-down fort with an underground entrance similar to that described above, we came to a point where the Hsiao Tang Valley curved away to the west towards the mountains which we had ascended on the 12th at Ta Ya Kon. Our track, however, continued in a northerly direction along a small stream which flows through a close gorge; then ascending a steep spur we reached the Tzu Chu Ti Pass in four hours—10 miles—from the Ming Kwang or Ta Ho River. The height is 9,200 feet. On the N'maikha side the first village reached is at Tz'u Chu Ti, which is said to be 12 miles from the top of the pass. Tzu Chu Ti consists, I was told, of three small villages of Kachins (one of which is probably the Lagwi of Captain Pottinger's map*), situated on a small stream which flows into the Hparé River. I asked a number of persons if there were any Chinese residents there, or anywhere else on the N'maikha sides of the watershed, but though every one agreed that Ming Kwang men were constantly going over to trade, no one could give me any information of a permanent settlement.\n\nImmediately to the north of the Tzu Chu Pass, and 1,000 feet above it, is a hill on the watershed, which, as it is free from forest, I ascended. From this point there is a view of a steep range jutting out from the divide, and situated apparently between the Hparé and Tz'u Chu streams, which join to form the Khan Sheng River. There is also a wide panorama of forest-clad ranges trending generally in a north-east direction towards the N'maikha. The mountain marked on the Burmah maps as Mien Kawng Pum (Ming Kwang Hill) is between the Ta Ho To'u and Tzu Chu Passes. It was covered with snow in March, but from the China side it is not a very well-defined peak; I even doubt if it is really on the watershed at all, and believe it to be on the N'maikha side. Time and weather did not permit me to visit it, but it must be at least 12,000 feet.\n\nMy next move was back to Ta Chu Pa, but owing to torrential rains I took two days to reach my former camp. The Ming Kwang Valley was temporarily reduced to a swamp.\n\nI had made previous arrangements with the Lisaw Headman to provide five porters who knew the road, and would take me over the great divide into the Salwen Valley, a track which was reported (and proved to be) impracticable for mules.\n\nMy object was to pass as near as possible to the sources of the Ta Tang, or east branch of the Shweli River, and to find out where the water-divide between the head-waters of the Shweli and the N'maikha joins and becomes merged in the great divide between the Salwen and the N'maikha.\n\nA severe thunderstorm prevented a start being made from Ta Chu Pa before 9:30 A.M. on the 19th March. The Lisaws carried their loads on their backs in bamboo baskets secured to a wooden yoke which was supported on the nape of the neck by a bamboo strap passing over the forehead.\n\nLeaving the track to the Ta Ho To'u Pass and Pien Ma at 1 mile from the Chu Pa stockade, we turned east along a narrow path and ascended through a dark and dank forest. After 2½ hours we emerged on an open ridge running east and closing the head of the Ta Tang Valley from which rises the east branch of the Shweli. To the east in front of us rose the slopes of the great Salwen divide, which stretched north and south as far as we could see; to the left or north of us was dense forest stretching up to a well-defined ridge jutting out from the main divide. This ridge was some 5 miles north of the ridge where we were standing, and the guides asserted, what certainly seemed to be the case, that it was the Ming Kwang N'maikha water-divide.\n\nPage 9\n\nThe forest between the ridge where we stood and this divide is watered by a small tributary of the Ming Kwang River; accordingly, the Ta Tang Valley does not reach up to the Shweli-N'maikha divide, but there is a bit of the basin of the Ming Kwang River intervening; thus the Ming Kwang River has every claim to be regarded as the true source of the Shweli.\n\nDescending to the brook of Tang Pieng Ho, which flows east for a short distance and then describes a semicircle to the north-east, and flows round to the west to join the Ming Kwang, we attacked the main Salwen Range by a steep and rough path through dense forest, much encumbered by roots of trees. We reached the divide at a height of only 9,400 feet. Then we proceeded along a marshy gully known as Ta Li Shu, the waters of which flow down to the Salwen by Lien Ti, and, after wading across several side streams found no help for it but to camp after six hours march on a wet patch of snow in the middle of the forest. We had much difficulty in lighting a fire, and snow or sleet fell at intervals through the night. The next morning we continued our route in a heavy snowstorm, and, after an ascent of one hour, reached the highest point of the pass at 9,900 feet. The track was full of quagmires and encumbered by roots of trees. The beginning of the descent to the Salwen was very steep and over deep snow: the upper slopes of this, the east side of the range, are covered with very heavy virgin forest. We passed two open patches used as camps, but nowhere on the higher slopes of this pass could more than a dozen men find camping room.\n\nContinuing our descent down a steep spur, with a mountain torrent far below us on the right, we crossed a stream from the left at 7,800 feet, after two hours' descent. From this point there is a very difficult section consisting of steep ups and downs over lateral spurs. The track was at places so steep and slippery that we had to haul ourselves up by clinging to shrubs and roots. After a fatiguing march of five and a-half hours we emerged from the dense upper forests, and, bearing to the north round some grassy spurs, we reached the Lisaw hamlet of Hsiao Ho (7,000 feet) situated in a fold of the hills by a small stream under the shadow of the great range. After a rest in this picturesque little valley we continued the march in a northerly direction by a stiff ascent of a spur to 8,400 feet. From this point we caught a glimpse of the Salwen far away below us.\n\nThough from the crest of the divide to the river is not in an air line more than 6 miles, the difference in altitude is 7,000 feet, and the intervening country is filled with an extremely complicated system of spurs and folds and bays in the mountains, so that the superficial area is large. Between 7,000 feet and 4,000 feet the number of villages and hamlets is very considerable, while the upper slopes are entirely destitute of inhabitants, and the traveller along the river bank at 3,000 feet passes but few villages, a circumstance of which the malarious climate is the probable explanation. The population of this part of the Salwen Valley is chiefly Lisaw, but they mostly speak Chinese and have partially adopted Chinese costume. By the riverside, however, there are remnants of a Shan population, and Chinese households are to be found in nearly every village.\n\nAfter ascending the spur above Hsiao Ho, we wound along a ridge in a northerly direction and after a long march of eight and a-half hours camped at the Lisaw village of To To, the Headman of which tried to make out that he was a Chinaman—a strange ambition. From this village there is an extensive view of the Salwen-Irrawadi divide range. It stretches in the same well-defined, regular and stately manner as far north as the eye could reach, and seems to have been planted there as a \"heaven-made boundary between two Empires. On the range nearly opposite, i.e., west of To To, there is a conspicuous gap or pass.\n\nA well-known track leads from the Salwen at Teng Kong (the village on the right bank immediately below To To) up to this pass, from the summit of which Pi'en Ma (see above) can be reached in a little more than a day, and I was informed that lightly-laden mules can be taken over. I inquired about passes over from the Salwen into the N'maikha Basin further north and was informed that two days' march north of Teng Keng (the village on the Salwen just\n\nPage 11\n\n[illegible text]\n\n369", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# \n\n6 \n\nThe water-divide between the Ta-ping and the Shweli Rivers is located close to the point where this minor divide joins the main N'Maikha watershed. Under the Lang Ya peak, there is a track leading from Tan Tsa to Ma Li Pa at the head of the Tien Tan Valley (see below) by a pass often closed by snow (10,800 feet) and so over to the headwaters of the Chi Pwi River. \n\nBetween the Manung Pum and the Lang Ya tracks, there is no recognized path over the hills. \n\nNo claims were seriously put forward to any territorial or other rights beyond the watershed on behalf of the Tien Tan Headman. \n\n## II. Tien Tun and the Chi Pwi River. \n\nA surveyor having been detailed to map in the Tan Tsa Valley, our party proceeded in sections, and by various routes, eastwards to the Tien Tan Valley, which is watered by the most westerly of the three main sources of the Shweli or Lung Chiang, the other two being the Ming Kwang (the middle or main source) and the Ta Tang or eastern source. The Ming Kwang and the Tien Tan join near Ku Tung bazaar, 22 miles north of Tengyueh, and the river so formed joins the Ta Tang Stream near Chuchih bazaar, 16 miles east of Tengyueh, from which point the joint river is known as the Lung Chiang to the Chinese. \n\nThe Upper Tien Tan, the Ming Kwang, and the Ta Tang are little more than mountain streams; except after heavy rain, they are everywhere fordable, and nowhere more than 50 yards broad. \n\nThe Tien Tan Valley is under Headman Tsai, who represents the eighth generation of his dynasty. He has no sort of administrative force or machinery except that he has a few village Headmen under him; his feebleness and incompetence even in such matters as levying his subjects to repair the roads excited the Taotai's bile, and Tsai came to me, as an old friend, to ask how he had best deprecate the great man's wrath. \n\nOur camp was formed at Ma Li Pa (6,500 feet), the last village on the track to the Chi Pwi, situated in a very beautiful valley surrounded by hills and under the east flank of the Lang Ya Mountain. Just below Ma Li Pa, the three brooks which form the Tien Tan Stream join: \n\n1. To the west, issuing from the east of the Lang Ya Mountain, is the Mo Shih (\"Stone-grinding\") Brook. I ascended this through dense jungle to the crest of the N'Maikha watershed, 7 miles from Ma Li Pa. On the pass, I met three Lisu, who said that proceeding by this track to the N'Maikha, theirs would be the first village reached, and it was three days' march for a laden coolie. \n\n2. To the east, the Main or Hei Tao Yuan source of the Tien Tan, which springs from a hill on the watershed known as the Sisters Hill, and flows through a romantic gorge past several small villages subject to Tien Tan to Ma Li Pa. \n\n3. Between these two, the Pau Wa Brook, which flows from the pass leading from the Tien to the Chi Pwi Valley in the N'Maikha basin. \n\nThe Headman Tsai made the same statement to me as he had made the year before, namely, that he claimed a kind of overlordship over a few villages of Lisu along the headwaters of the Chi Pwi, based apparently on the occasional exchange of presents and on the fact that Chinese incursions over the watershed had occasionally taken place. He admitted, however, that since the disturbances caused by the Panthay rebellion fifty years ago, no such exchange of presents had taken place, and that most of the Lisu on the Upper Chi Pwi had dispersed. The number of 100 Lisu families subject to him, which he had given me last year, included all those who had moved over from the Chi Pwi to the Tien Tan side. \n\nThe following day, however, the Taotai gave me a \"map\" of Tien Tan, which professed to have been drawn up by Tsai. It was a work which possessed the merit, if not of accuracy, at least of imagination, and went to prove that the Taotai's geography, like Dogberry's reading and writing, comes by nature. With the exception of a part which had been \"cribbed\" from me, the map was totally inaccurate, but it showed the whole of the valleys of the Shi-Ngaw, Tumi-maw, and Chi Pwi Rivers as subject to Tien Tan. This includes part of the ordinary jurisdiction of the Myitkyina district. The Taotai further informed me that the Mali-kha was the true Irrawaddy and the proper frontier. This was so contrary to Tsai's statement to me the day before that I inquired what had happened, when it appeared that the map and the claim was the work \n\n7 \n\nof Mr. Chu, the Taotai's interpreter, who had been on the Southern Boundary Commission with General Liu and had given much trouble by his obstructiveness and impertinence. Shortly after, however, this young gentleman was discovered by the Taotai to be levying a private contribution in the neighbouring bazaar, as was the custom in the good old days of General Liu. The Taotai ordered him out of the camp in disgrace, and we heard no more of him. \n\nI told the Taotai that these so-called claims of Tien Tan were entirely beyond discussion, and that I must refuse to talk about them. The Taotai acknowledged that Tsai had no sort of control over the country in question and no documentary evidence to support his map, that Tsai was hopelessly incompetent, and that the claims might be considered as withdrawn. I therefore hope that no more will be heard of them or of the Mali-kha frontier. \n\nThe claims of Tien Tan to the headwaters of the Chi Pwi seemed to call for examination on the spot. So, accompanied by Mr. Lakin, one of the surveyors, and a Chinese deputy, I went over the Pau Wa Pass towards the N'Maikha. This pass is the easiest of all those which cross the divide, being only 7,800 feet and approached by a broad track ascending across downs. The crest is only 7 miles from Ma Li Pa, and after a short descent on the other side, we struck one of the headwaters of the Chi Pwi. The country is very wild and grand; precipitous mountains covered with patches of dense forest and bamboo brake descended to the narrow broken valley of the river. A lofty snow-capped ridge which forms the divide on the right bank of the Chi Pwi was a conspicuous object. It is known locally as the Kao Liang Kung, a common name for a high peak in this country. The first village passed on the N'Maikha side was Chang Yin Kon, 6 miles from the Pau Wa Pass. It consisted of three small wretched huts, inhabited by Lisu. Five miles further on, we passed Chung Shan, which used to give its name to the whole district, but now consists of only four huts and some deserted gardens. Descending along the Chi Pwi for 4 miles further, we passed Lu Pi, where we found extensive remains of orchards and paddy-fields, a fact which seems to support the statement that formerly the valley was cultivated by a considerable population of Lisu. \n\nThree miles beyond Lu Pi is, or rather was, Shi Pao; this was the last Lisu settlement down the Chi Pwi. We found that the only inhabitants were a cock pheasant and a covey of partridges, the villagers having all dispersed. Doubtless much of this desolation was the work of the Chinese, who came over and ravaged this country in 1902. \n\nFrom Shi Pao, the surveyor ascended the Kao Liang ridge to a pass 9,000 feet, whence he was able to connect his work with the first Kachin (Maru) village of Lachang, the position of which had already been fixed by Mr. Hertz's party in 1900. We then returned to Ma Li Pa after a pleasant excursion of five days; on the way, we met a party of Marus from the Lower Chi Pwi, who had been across to the Tien Tan Valley to trade. \n\nNone of these Lisu hamlets on the Chi Pwi now give anything to Tien Tan, for various reasons, of which the principal is that they have nothing to give. There are no permanent Chinese residents in the Chi Pwi Valley, but in the open season, some wood-cutters go over from Tien Tan. \n\n## III. Ming Kwang Valley, Hparè, and Teu Chu. \n\nFrom Ma Li Pa, the main camp was then moved east across the hills into the Ming Kwang Valley, where the Taotai took up his abode at the official residence of Tso, the Fu Yi or Chief of Upper Ming Kwang, while Mr. Leveson and I formed camp about 14 miles higher up in the Valley of Cha Shan Ho, a brook which runs down from the pass leading from Ming Kwang over the watershed to Hparè. \n\n| Event | Location | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Taotai's abode | Official residence of Tso, Upper Ming Kwang | Fu Yi or Chief of Upper Ming Kwang |\n| Mr. Leveson and I formed camp | Valley of Cha Shan Ho | 14 miles higher up, brook runs down to Hparè |\n\nThe arrangements which the Regent of Ming Kwang (the Fu Yi being a minor) made for the Taotai were no better than Tsai's in Tien Tan, and the Regent felt a good deal of the rough side of the Taotai's tongue. Neither he nor the young Fu Yi came to see us, though I understand that this omission was by order of the Taotai; but several Lashi Kachins from Hparè, who had been to the Ming Kwang bazaar, came into Mr. Leveson's camp, including one of the Headman's sons. They gave valuable information, which persuaded Mr. Leveson that we should meet with a friendly reception at Hparè, if the Chinese could be kept from insulting or molesting the natives. \n\nA survey party having been despatched to map in the watershed along the west of \n\n436 \n\n31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403538, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "440 \n\n14 \n\n[The Chinese firm pay one in ten—at least, so they told me—but I expect that they and the Lisu often evade payment.—G. L.] \n\n\"Beyond collecting toll and tribute Teng Keng never exercises any authority on the N'Maikha side of the watershed beyond the Salween divide. \n\nThe Upper Ngaw Chang Valley consists of steep grassy slopes, with pines and chestnuts, and very little cultivation. Mules from Ming Kwang are sometimes sent here to graze, and I met a few Szechuanese peddlers with their trade loads. Below Kang Fang there are some narrow strips of paddy-land on both sides of the river.\" \n\n## VI. The Lisu Country on the Upper Salween. \n\nI was accompanied from Pien Ma to the Salween by Surveyor Lachman Jadu; my object was to collect such further information about the main Salween-Irrawaddy divide as would enable His Majesty's Government to press for the definition of the frontier north of the point (about latitude 25° 50′) where this main divide is joined by the minor divide between the Ming Kwang and Ngaw Chang Rivers, or, what is the same, the divide between the Shweli and the N'Maikha. \n\nFrom Pien Ma the track ascended steeply in an easterly direction across open grassy hills. At 8,500 feet a magnificent view was unfolded. East of us the lofty snow-clad range between the Salween and the N'Maikha stretched away towards the north; to the south of us the crest of the divide between the Ngaw Chang and the Ming Kwang Rivers stood clearly out against the sky for many miles. Nothing could have shown more clearly than this view the fitness and convenience of the frontier which we claim. \n\nBelow us lay the scattered village of Pien Ma with its narrow valley of paddy-fields stretching down to the dark gorge in which flows the Ngaw Chang. Beyond, and hanging over the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, was another majestic range of snow-clad peaks forming a barrier between the Lashi (Chinese, Cha Shau) country, which we had been exploring, and Lang-su, as it is known to the Chinese. \n\nLang-su is a general term indicating all the wild Maru country beyond the Ngaw Chang and west of the great Salween divide. It appears to be generally recognized by the Chinese as not being under their control, and no claims were put forward in respect of it. The N'Maikha above the junction of the Ngaw Chang is known to the very few Chinese who have been there as the Laug-su River. \n\nWe crossed into the Salween basin by the Pien Ma Pass at 10,500 feet. This pass is usually practicable for mules, but we found the narrow path along the hill-side leading down from the summit deep in loose wet snow, across which it was impossible for animals to proceed. We were accordingly compelled to send the mules round by the Ma Mien Pass, a détour of twelve days, and do as best we could with coolie porters. The descent on the Salween side was very steep along the gorge of the Ku Tan Stream, which joins the Salween just north of the village of Teng Keng, after a rapid course of 12 miles. After camping in the jungle some 4 miles above the scattered village of Ku T'an, we climbed up a very steep spur on the left of the stream till we reached 6,500 feet, or 3,500 feet above the Salween, whence a long half-day's march of 8 miles northwards along steep bare hill-sides with several steep ascents and descents brought us to the Lisu village of La Chang (thirty houses), situated at 6,000 feet on a wooded terrace high above the Salween. \n\nHere we reached the fatherland of the Lisu tribe, for the Lisu villages scattered about the hills further south are all emigrations from the Upper Salween. Very few of the inhabitants of La Chang can speak more than a few sentences of Chinese. At Mao Chao, the next village to the north, only the attendants of the semi-Chinese Headman can speak the language of Han. Beyond Mao Chao there are no Chinese at all except two families resident at Cheng Ka, by the banks of Salween, latitude 26°, a small village with some paddy-fields, where there is a rope sling-bridge and a ferry-raft for crossing the river in low water. \n\nWe advanced three marches north of Lu Chang, camping at the villages of Mao Chao, Shih Pai Lai Ti, and Pai Pa; fortunately, lucid moments between the perpetual thunderstorms which swept down the valley in quick succession enabled the surveyor, by advancing above and beyond Pai Pa, to map the river and the high snow-clad divide between it and the Irrawaddy as far as latitude 26° 30′. \n\nI may therefore here put together in brief the information which I have collected on this and other journeys concerning the Upper Salween—i.e., above the iron suspension bridge on the main Burmah-Ta Li road. \n\n15 \n\nFrom the bridge northwards as far as Teng Keng, latitude 26°, the river, though its basin is only some 20 miles across, flows through comparatively open country, the great mountains on both sides breaking down to the banks in open rolling downs with ample room for rice cultivation, but, owing to the extreme unhealthiness of the valley, only a small part of it is cultivated by a mixed population of Shans and Chinese. There are, however, numerous Chinese villages along the upper slopes. The principal ferry in this section is at Meng Ku, latitude 25° 36', near the market of Man Yin, on the right or west bank, which is the last bazaar on the Upper Salween, and is situated in a broad paddy-valley at the foot of the Ma Mien Pass over to the valley of Ta Tang (Upper Shweli). \n\nFrom Teng Keng, in latitude 26° northwards, to about 27° 40', the river, which maintains an equal breadth of 100 yards for a great distance, is enclosed in a gorge as precipitous as the cañon of the Mekong. From about latitude 26° the range on the west bank forms the main divide between the Salween and the Irrawaddy, and its array of peaks is covered with snow for at least eight months of the year. This range is also an important ethnographical boundary, forming a barrier between the Maru country along the east of N'Maikha and the Lisu country along the west bank of the Salween. The Salween Lisu seem to regard this range as the frontier, and speak of their own Liso country—i.e., the Salween Valley—in contradistinction to Langsu, the Kachin country on the other side of the range. \n\nThe gorge section of the Salween appears to be entirely inhabited by Lisu, a tribe closely allied to the Lolo, and probably of Thibetan origin. They are well aware of the unhealthiness of the river banks, and nearly all their villages are 3,000 feet above the bottom of the gorge, even though the paddy-fields have to be squeezed into the few gaps in the cliffs by the river banks. \n\nThe characteristic of this gorge of the Salween is the tremendous series of sharp steep spurs which come straight down from the snows to the river in an endless succession of parallels. It must be remembered that while the river itself here flows at 3,000 feet, and the mountains between it and the Irrawaddy basin on the west, or the basin of the Mekong on the east, rise to heights from 10,000 feet to 13,000 feet, the whole width of the valley from crest to crest of the two ranges is only some 18 miles in an air-line; from native information it appears that the spurs which descend to the N'Maikha on the west side of the great divide are quite as numerous and difficult as those which we negotiated on our journey northwards from Lu Chang. \n\nFrom about latitude 27° 40′ northwards to the confines of Thibet the valley of the Salween is again somewhat more open. Wide stretches of country are covered with tall grass, and the bulk of the population in this section consists of Lu Tzu, a tribe in a very backward condition and probably closely allied to the Ching-paw or Kachins. \n\nThe French `Missions Étrangères` have recently sent a priest to work among these people, and he has established himself at Chongra on the left bank at about latitude 28°. He has seen and even ascended the Salween-Irrawaddy divide, which is here the boundary between the Lu and the Chiu tribes, who inhabit the eastern sources of the Irrawaddy. This same divide was crossed by Prince Henri of Orleans at an altitude of 12,800 feet, in latitude approximately 27° 40'. \n\nIt is therefore submitted that it may be regarded as established that a high regular range divides the Salween from the Irrawaddy basin as far as the sources of the latter river, and that north of the point (about latitude 25° 52′) where the Ming Kwang-N'Maikha divide joins it, this main range is not only the most convenient frontier, but also the only frontier which His Majesty's Government can accept, and that the sooner the Government of Peking can be brought to comprehend this the better. \n\nTravelling in the Lisu country is a series of steep climbs up the almost perpendicular sides of spurs, followed by break-neck descents on the other side. The scattered villages of rude log or bamboo huts with grass thatching are generally situated near the ridges of the spurs. The streams between the spurs are violent mountain torrents crossed by rickety plank bridges, and the bottom of each little valley is occupied by a hot and steamy jungle, whence the perspiring traveller climbs painfully up to the breezy ridges. The Taotai with much difficulty got a small mountain chair as far as Mao Chao, but there had to call a halt while I and the surveyor proceeded `pedibus cum jambis`. \n\nCultivation on the steep hill slopes along the river is extensive but precarious, as the fields are liable to be swept bodily away into the Salween; paddy-fields are few, and are...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403541, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 450, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## 20\n\nThe area is uninhabitable for an average distance of 6 to 8 miles from the crest. This range divides all the Kachins (on the Burmah side) from all the Chinese (on the Yunnon side). Further, all the Lisu, with the exception of a few scattered hamlets, and all the Lu Tzu would be on the Chinese side. Moreover, the frontier proposed is already recognized as such by the natives all along the line, even in the case of the Pien Ma people, who, while recognizing themselves as tributary to Teng Keng, still regard the watershed as the frontier between them and China proper.\n\n3. We find that the adoption of any other frontier would be highly detrimental to the interests of Burmah and in the long run scarcely less injurious to China. Chinese territorial claims on the N'Maikha side could not be recognized without forming an enclave where all the discontented, restless, or criminal spirits could find a safe refuge beyond the reach of the British Government. This would greatly increase the expense and difficulty of even a partial administration. Such an enclave would have to be surrounded by a line of forts, maintained at heavy cost. That the Yunnan Government will not, indeed cannot, reduce its tribes to order is not a matter of speculation, but of actual experience, witness the Blamo frontier, where considerable tracts on the China side are under no sort of control and Burmah has to maintain a military police force to an extent which, so far as the British Kachins are concerned, would be wholly unnecessary.\n\nIf Yunnan cannot control these Kachins, who are close to the main trade routes and adjacent to Tengyueh, what likelihood is there that any serious steps would be taken by the Mandarins to establish order in the distant N'Maikha basin, especially when even the pretence of a military force in West Yunnan has been abandoned? This being the case, to recognize their claims would be to involve them in constant difficulties with regard to frontier disputes. What the Chinese really want is precisely what we ought not to concede, namely, that we should save their face by recognizing their claims and they should nevertheless not be put to any expense or trouble in order to control or to police the country claimed; in other words, that we should admit their full rights of sovereignty without expecting them to fulfil any of its duties. The Taotai assures me that the Fu Yi will guarantee the good behaviour of the tribes and that he will guarantee the good behaviour of the Fu Yi; but this does not improve matters; it is simply Bardolph going bail for Falstaff. I should, like the tailor, want better assurance.\n\n4. We suggest that there is now quite sufficient information to enable a frontier to be laid down at Peking or London, and therefore recommend that His Majesty's Government should not consent to dispatch any further parties for inquiry or delimitation, except possibly to lay down boundary pillars when the frontier has been accepted by China. We further recommend that no further discussion with the Chinese as to what the boundary is to be should be entertained after the results of the present inquiry, with the map, have been laid before them. The negotiations, if any, should be confined to the presentation of a draft Convention in which the only matter for discussion is the amount and mode of payment of the compensation to be made by Burmah for Teng Keng's claims; or, in the alternative, if the Chinese refuse to sign such a Convention, to a declaration that the water-divide is the line which we intend to regard as the frontier in future.\n\n5. As regards payment, we suggest that not only the revenue actually obtained by Teng Keng should be considered, but also the value to the Government of Burmah of a speedy settlement. A payment of 500 rupees per annum will, in fact, more than compensate for the discontinuance of present actual receipts, but it will be well worth while to pay 1,000 rupees, or even a few hundreds more, to obtain an immediate acceptance of the line proposed.\n\nWhile the convenience of paying a lump sum to extinguish the claims once and for all may be admitted, it will probably on the whole be preferable to pay an annuity to the Chinese Headmen, which they would receive quamdiu se bene gesserint. If after a settlement had been reached they molested or caused disorder among the people on the N'Maikha side, payment could be withheld, whereas if a lump sum had been paid we should have no further hold over them. Moreover, the Chinese are more likely to be willing to accept an annual payment than a lump sum, as the latter might be regarded as a transaction for the sale of Celestial land. The money could be paid via the Consul and the Taotai to the Chinese Headmen in such proportions as the Taotai might direct, though, as a fact, Teng Keng is the only man who has any claims to a single rupee.\n\n6. We recommend that every effort, by simultaneous and continuous pressure both at Peking and Yunnan, should be made to induce the Chinese Government to accept the watershed frontier.\n\n## 21\n\n7. If they consent to this, there seem no reasons why the Government of Burmah should be in any hurry to administer the country, but it might possibly be advisable to send a small expedition to establish friendly relations with the Lashi Headmen along the Ngaw Chang, Kan Sheng, and Pien Ma Rivers, and to explain to them that henceforth they are not subject to China, and that the Chinese Headmen have no right to molest them.\n\n8. If the Chinese still refuse to abandon their pretensions, then it will be for the Government of Burmah to consider whether the advance of British administration, or at least of control, along the N'Maikha should not be accelerated. The only argument against this (but it is a weighty one) is the expense; on the other hand, it is clear that sooner or later this expense will have to be undertaken. The people at present seem friendly to us on the N'Maikha side, and there appears for the moment to be little danger of Chinese intrigues. It is therefore probable that the sooner the task is taken up, the less expensive it will be. Further, the sooner the country comes under British control, the sooner the question of the frontier will be finally settled and the danger of friction with the Chinese avoided. It may be argued and admitted that the territory in dispute is of no immediate or intrinsic value, and that there is no necessity to take immediate action, or even that graceful concessions may be made to the Chinese in respect of it; it is—\n\n\"a little patch of ground \nThat hath in it no profit but the name. \nTo pay \nfive ducats, five, I would not farm it; \nNor will it yield to Norway or the Pole \nA ranker rate should it be sold in fee.\"\n\nThe reply is that, in considering a frontier, attention has to be paid to the possibilities of the distant future, and not merely to the political convenience of the moment. While the territory is intrinsically worthless, it is of much importance in matters of this kind. Graceful concessions in relation to the future administration of a vast tract of country have never helped us with the Chinese; besides, to yield on this point would be to confer on our Celestial friends a damnosa hereditas.\n\nOn the whole, we submit that no time should be lost in taking such action as will place beyond all doubt or possibility of future question the principle that the whole of the basin of the Irrawaddy up to the Salween divide is within the sphere of Indian influence. To secure this, it will not be necessary to touch any of the country west of the N'Maikha, nor on the east of that river, to set up an administration so precise as that which now exists in the Kachin Hills near Bhamo. All that seems to be called for is some improvement of the principal line of communication from the Shi Ngaw River, first to the Chi Pwi, then to the line of the Kan Sheng-Ngaw Chang, and then along the Ngaw Chang, all this country being gradually brought within the sphere of the Civil Officer's tour, and special attention being paid to establishing good relations with the Hparè, Lung Pang, and Pien Ma Headmen, who are nearest to China.\n\nIf these ends could be attained without fighting, there would, perhaps, be no present necessity for establishing a military post, which could not be done without great expense, especially for rationing. The country beyond and to the north of Ngaw Chang, which is inhabited by wild Marus, is so far from any Chinese influences that its administration may probably in any case be indefinitely postponed.\n\nIt is true that past experience among other Kachins goes to show that this tract could not be brought under control without military operations. But I may observe that most of the serious collisions which have occurred in the Kachin country, such as at Sima, Sadôn, and Matang in the early '90's, or at Hparè in 1900, were the immediate outcome of intrigues directed from the Tengyueh yamêns by Chinese officials. Now that so responsible an official as a Taotai is at Tengyueh in charge of frontier affairs, it is less likely that we shall have to anticipate difficulties of that kind; at least the Consular officers now established in Yünnan would probably be able to detect any such conspiracy. For the present, I anticipate nothing of the kind, and that is another reason why the opportunity seems favourable for an advance of British control up the N'Maikha; later on, the Mandarins may begin their old tricks again, for their real character remains ever the same, Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret. Further, the Kachins now understand better what British control means, and are less likely to resent it, and less likely to listen to the Chinese.\n\n9. If the limit of our control is pushed north, it may be advisable to remember that the upper waters of the N'Maikha are auriferous, perhaps highly auriferous. Until expert opinion has been obtained on the point, it would be well to abstain from granting any extensive concessions in this country.\n\nPage 443 \nPage 450 \nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407443, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 739, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "10. We have no reliable evidence that Mount Loi-mu has ever been known as Kung-ming Shan, but only the assertion of General Liu, who never visited it. Sir George Scott, who did visit it, and who could interrogate the natives, declares that such a name as Kung-ming Shan is not applied to it. Even if it were, Mount Loi-mu cannot be the \"very lofty mountain range\" of the Convention, for this last runs, according to the Convention, from longitude 99° 40′ to longitude 99° 30′, whereas Mount Loi-mu is a solitary peak in longitude 99° 0′.\n\n11. From point (c) the Convention boundary \"descends the western slope of the hills to the Namka River.\" If point (c) were Mount Loi-mu the only possible slope by which to reach the Namkha would be the eastern. It is perfectly clear that the Convention boundary approaches the Namkha from the east and not from the west.\n\n12. The point where the boundary between Munglem and Kiang Tong diverges from the Namka River\" is admitted by both parties to be \"Cairn 1 on the south, where the Namyung stream debouches into the Namkha River\"-to quote from Shih's Memorandum. To find point (d), therefore, all we have to do is to measure 10 minutes of latitude (or 113 geographical miles) in a straight line to meet the Namkha on the north. This falls in the near neighbourhood of the Su-hsing (Hsuphse) stockade. It cannot possibly fall, where Shih's map makes it fall, at Nungkiu (Nawnghkio), for that is 45 minutes (or some 52 miles) north of Cairn 1.\n\n13. It will thus be seen that all the arguments from the (a) latitudes and longitudes, (b) watersheds and rivers, mentioned in the Treaty support Scott's Line,\" and do not agree with Shih Taotai's line, still less with that of Lin and Ch'en-tajen.\n\nThere remains the argument employed in Shih Taotai's Memorandum, namely, \"according to the Treaty Chenpien is left to China, as is also Menglem, and this implies that all territory controlled by Chenpien or Menglem is left to China.'\n\nNow by Article V of the Convention of March 1, 1894, Great Britain agreed for certain considerations to renounce in favour of China all the suzerain rights in and over the State of Menglem, formerly possessed by the Kings of Ava concurrently with the Emperors of China. China, by officially accepting this renunciation, formally admitted that Great Britain had possessed such suzerain rights up to that date, March 1, 1894. The asserted surrender to China by its Sawbwa, Li Tungming, of Hsi-ming (Mongkha) in 1891, the \"recovery by Imperial troops\" of Menghsaw in the same year, and the Memorial and Rescript that ensued--all of which are brought forward as arguments in Shih Taotai's Memorandum-cannot possibly be admitted to prove China's claim, since they took place previous to the above date. Menglem could not extend its territory, whether at the expense of Hsi-ming and Menghsaw or otherwise, in 1891 without the consent of its co-Suzerain Great Britain, This consent was never given; on the contrary, we have consistently protested against Chinese troops being sent to, or stationed in, Isi-ming and Menghsaw.\n\n14. As regards Chenpien, this Sub-Prefecture was not created till 1887, after the British succession to the suzerain rights of the Kings of Ava had been recognized by China, China, therefore, could not include in Chenpien, which was to be directly administered by Chinese officials, any territory over which Burmah in 1886 had possessed suzerain or co-suzerain rights. Accordingly the expression \"Chenpien \"as used in the Convention of 1894 does not, and cannot, comprise any territory, such as Hsi-ming, Menghsaw, Menglem, or Kiang Tung, that came under either of these categories. It is not, however, necessary now to argue this point, for Shih Taotai's map distinguishes clearly between the district directly administered by the Sub-Prefect of Chenpien and the territory subject to the Hsi-ming Sawbwa.\" Chenpien proper, in short, is left by \"Scott's Line\" entirely to China.\n\nPage 44\n\n15. A similar argument applies to the districts marked in Shih Taotai's map as appertaining to:--\n\n(a.) Upper Hulu, south of the watershed between the Great and Little Nam-kun Rivers (the Nam-kun and Nam-kawn); and\n\n(b.) Mengtum, west of the watershed between the Namt'ung (Namtum) and the Great Nam-kun (Nam-kawn).\n\nAny advance subsequent to the 1st January, 1886, made by Mengtum, Mengkaw, Kengma, or Mengting across their frontier lines as these stood on that date cannot be admitted by Great Britain as valid. If the above States can prove that certain villages were really administered by them south or west of those lines before 1886, then by Article VI of the Treaty of 1894 the alignment as laid down in that Convention may be altered \"on the principle of equivalent concessions.”\n\nPage 5\n\nI shall be glad to learn whether it is the desire of your Government that the above arguments, or any modification of them, should be communicated to the Government of Yunnan.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum on the Yunnan-Burmah Boundary, from the Namting to Nalawt, by Shih Hung-shao, formerly Acting Intendant of the Southern Circuit, and now Intendant of the Eastern Circuit.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n(Handed to Consul-General Wilkinson, July 25, 1906.)\n\nTHE present Memorandum deals with the undelimited frontier from Cairn 3 at Lai-bsing Shan (Loi Hseng), by the junction of the Namting and Nampa streams on the north, to Cairn 1 on the south, where the Namyung stream debouches into the Namkha River.\n\nThis boundary, it is to be observed, includes certain stockaded villages under the jurisdiction of the Mu-nai Tussu (Sawbwa), territory that has for many years paid land tax and \"corvée\" to the Chenpien Sub-Prefecture. There is Hsi-ming (Mengkha), originally subject to Menglem, but which later on seceded under Lo(hei) insurgents. Its Sawbwa, Tunguning, in the seventeenth year of the Kuang Hsi (1891) gave in his allegiance at the head of his men, and it has long been subject to the control of Chenpien. It has for years paid land tax and \"corvée.\" A Memorial that received the Imperial assent is conspicuous in men's eyes and ears. There is Mengso (Menghsaw), which also was originally subject to Menglem. It seceded under Han Ping-chao, but was recovered in the seventeenth year of the Kuang Hsu (1891) by Imperial troops and reverted to the control of Menglem, which receives land tax and * corvée,\" For all the above are records that may be consulted.\n\nFurther, this boundary follows the Namkha River from places east of the Namıkhan River, such as Namping, Kuauteh, Lungkhan, Fulang, Moyang, Lengkhau, Suhsing (Hsuphse), Kunghsin, Wengwo, and Manpien, some dozens of stockaded villages that were either old Menglem territory which for years paid land tax and provided labour and has never seceded, or which, having seceded under the rebels Cha and Han, has long since been recovered by the Imperial troops and for years been garrisoned. This is undoubtedly territory controlled and governed by Chenpien and Menglem (or, by Menglem in Chenpien).\n\nAccording to the Treaty, Chenpien is left to China, as is also Menglem; and this implies that all territory controlled by Chenpien or Menglem is left to China.\n\nAgain, the Treaty reads, \"shall follow the course of the river forming the boundary between Somu, which belongs to Great Britain, and Meng Ting, which belongs to China. It shall continue to follow the frontier between these two districts, which is locally well known, to where it leaves the aforesaid river and ascends the hills.\" If the boundary-line follows the Namting River, that forms the boundary, then not only the whole of Panbung, in the Upper Hulu, would be left to China, but Hn-pan (Hopang), belonging to Pank'uang (Pangkuan), in the Lower Hulu, and other places, would all have to be marked off as Chinese.\n\nIf this is abandoned and another boundary-line proposed, it would not follow the Namting River, but would start from the south bank of that river, west of Tungkha Hill, and go by Kungmeng (Kawngmawng) and the Menglin (Mongling) Hills to the Pach'ang Hills. To make a division by the Panhung and Pankuang Hills (2.q., to divide along the line of hills forming the frontier between Panbung and Pank'uang) would leave Panhung, in the Upper Hulu, to China, and Pank'uang, in the Lower Hulu, to Great Britain.\n\nAgain, it was originally suggested to leave the parts of the Kawa (Vü) territories bordering on Yünnan to Yunnan, and those bordering on Burmah to Burmah. This suggestion was very fair. The Wild Was' lands lie between Yünnan and Burmah. When delimited, account should be taken of local conditions. In short, Yunnan cannot overstep the Wild Was' lands and occupy districts controlled by Burmah Sawbwas; nor can Burmah overstep the Wild Was' lands and occupy districts controlled by Yunnan T'ussu. This is equitable dealing.\n\nPage 729", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414491, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## ROADS IN THE CITY\n\n| Name of Road | Nature of Repairs |\n| --- | --- |\n| Praya East, Pennington Street, Yee Woo Street | Macadam and blinding |\n| Wongneichong Road, Percival Street | Ditto |\n| Morrison Hill Road | Ditto |\n| Road between Morrison Hill & Wongneichong Roads | Ditto |\n| Gap Road | Ditto |\n| Road between Gap Road and Wanchai Road | Ditto |\n| Wanchai Road | Ditto |\n| Heard Street, Burrow Street | Ditto |\n| Queen's Road East | Ditto |\n| Wardley Street, D'Aguilar Street, Pottinger Street | Ditto |\n| Jubilee Street | Ditto |\n| Queen Victoria Street | Ditto |\n| Gilman Street | Ditto |\n| Cross Street West | Ditto |\n| Des Voeux Road Central, Wing Lok Street | Ditto |\n| Queen's Road Central and West | Ditto |\n| Connaught Road Central | Ditto |\n| Des Voeux Road West | Ditto |\n| Praya West | Ditto |\n| Pokfulam Road | Macadam and blinding |\n| Hatton Road, Harlech Road, Mount Kellett Road | Decomposed granite and blinding |\n| Barker Road | Macadam and blinding |\n| Coombe Road | Macadam and Lime and Cement Concrete |\n| Magazine Gap Road | Macadam and blinding |\n| Wanchai Gap Road | Decomposed granite |\n| Blacks Link | Blinding |\n| Victoria Road | Blinding and macadam |\n| Pokfulam Road, Peak Road to Pokfulam, Wongneichong Village | Blinding |\n| Mount Parker Road | Ditto |\n| Tai Tam Road | Ditto |\n\n## ROADS OUTSIDE THE CITY\n\n| Name of Road | Nature of Repairs |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hatton Road | Macadam und blinding |\n| Harlech Road | Ditto |\n| Mount Kellett Road | Blinding and repairs to macadam |\n| Barker Road | Blinding |\n| Coombe Road | Blinding and Macadam |\n| Magazine Gap Road | Ditto |\n| Wanchai Gap Road | Ditto |\n| Blacks Link | Blinding |\n| Victoria Road | Remove landslips and put decomposed granite where necessary |\n| Pokfulam Road | Blinding and removing landslips |\n| Mount Parker Road | Ditto |\n| Tai Tam Road | Decomposed granite |\n| Tai Tam Tuk Road | Ditto |\n| Shek O Road | Ditto |\n| Road from Shaukiwan to Tytam Tuk | Ditto |\n| Stanley Road | Blinding and repairs to macadam |\n| Road from Wongneichong to Golf Links | Removing landslips and blinding macadam |\n| New Aberdeen Road | Ditto |\n| Old Aberdeen Road | Ditto |\n| Victoria Road | Ditto |\n| Bonham Road | Macadam and blinding |\n| Robinson Road | Ditto |\n| Kennedy Road | Decomposed granite |\n| Wellington Street, Old Bailey | Lime and Cement Concrete |\n| First Street | Ditto |\n| Second Street | Ditto |\n| Third Street | Ditto |\n| High Street | Ditto |\n| Battery Path | Landslip and extending retaining wall |\n\n## ROADS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES\n\n| Name of Road | Nature of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tai Po Road | Remove landslips, rebuild retaining and parapet walls |\n| Shun Wan Road | Repairs to Causeway. Blinding macadam and new decomposed granite. Repair bridges and make good slopes. Lay new decomposed granite where washed away |\n\n## ROADS IN KOWLOON\n\n| Name of Road | Nature of Repairs |\n| --- | --- |\n| Station Street | Blinding macadam |\n| Salisbury Road | Ditto |\n| Garden Road | Ditto |\n| Robinson Road | Ditto |\n| Chater Road | Ditto |\n| Elgin Road | Ditto |\n| Des Voeux Road | Ditto |\n| Austin Road | Decomposed granite |\n| Kowloon City Road | and replacing macadam |\n| Boundary Road, Tai Kok Tsui, Ngau Chi Wan Road | Removing landslips and new decomposed granite |\n\n## TELEPHONES\n\n### Locality\n\nLines in Hongkong, Kowloon and New Territories.\n\n### Extent of Damage\n\nPractically all the telephone routes were down and it will be weeks before all the communications are restored. The Time Ball has been temporarily put in working order and the Central Police Station is in connection with the C.S.O. Exchange. It has been impossible to test the cables as the Kowloon end of the 8-cored cable has been dragged from the cable hut and is buried in the sand at present. It is being dug out and will be tested as soon as the end is free. Several boats and lighters dragged their anchors through the cable reserve and some of the cables were lifted when the anchors were weighed. Communication with Observatory has been restored owing to Telephone Co. kindly lending the Government a core in their cable.\n\nPage 398", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "# The Hongkong Telegraph \n\n## HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1910. \n\n### \"IS THAT TRUE?\" \n\nYesterday afternoon our Chinese fellow-citizens expressed in fitting and graceful manner their strong appreciation of Sir Frederick Lugard's successful work in this Colony. The Honourable Dr. Ho Kai, CMG., in his speech, went more than the truth when he declared that His Excellency had seen the Colony through the most trying times and had placed it once again on the high road to prosperity and success. It is proverbially difficult to please everybody, but Sir Frederick Lugard has overcome all obstacles, even those which at first sight appeared to be insuperable. Hongkong is not yet out of the financial straits into which, in common with other dependencies of our Empire, it has been driven by the time-serving Nonconformist-conscience-ridden vote-catching policy of a deplorable Government. Everything that could be effected by a clear intellect and resolute will was carried through by the Governor during, perhaps, the worst crisis in the fortunes of this outpost of Empire since first the Union Flag was planted at its shores. Misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and opposition from within and from without hampered and thwarted him at every step, until his consciousness of right and tenacity of purpose triumphed. Here he was blindly accused of being too willing to acquiesce in the extravagancies of the faddist régime at Westminster, and there he was calumniated in Parliament and accused of wilful disobedience to and evasion of the orders of the Imperial Government. It must have been discouraging uphill work for His Excellency, who depended, of course, upon the leading lights in the community for so much - for information first, even for advice, and always for help.\n\nAbout three years ago, when Sir Frederick Lugard fired his inaugural shot by getting the new rifle range at the Peak, and on being informed that he had scored a \"possible,\" he exclaimed: \"Is that true?\" This expression of doubt, disconcerting perhaps to those who arranged such functions, was not, as we remarked at the time, without its significance. A newly-appointed Governor arrives in a Colony where \"his work is cut out for him.\" He is too often apt to accept the views and adopt the policy of his entourage, especially of those who have served his predecessors, and have all details at their fingers' ends. Sometimes these subordinates are men whose insight, sympathy, and breadth of view, joined to their experience, render them of invaluable assistance to the new Chief. Sometimes the latter becomes the signing-machine and the mouthpiece of a fossilized bureaucracy. But not this time. Sir Frederick's exclamation, \"Is that true?\" was, as we rightly surmised, an indication of his mind. Disdaining to see with other men's eyes, he has always insisted on seeing for himself. He has neither disregarded nor worshipped precedent. He has deigned to consider the views of those around him, and has been guided by the path that seemed most wise.\n\nHe found Hongkong in desperate straits, with divergent views and serious disagreement. He had a long, lone furrow to plough. The firmness and high courage with which he carried the new taxation measures, the calm resolution and patient toil with which he set himself personally to investigate the angle of the enormous increase above the estimated expenditure on the Kowloon-Canton Railway, his diligence in carefully and personally working through the nearly fatal typhoon losses are still fresh in the public mind. So many causes for decreased revenue, so many new demands for expenditure. The disaster to the Colony's purse by the loss on opium (without any visible corresponding real advantage), and the decrease in the value of rateable properties caused partly by the enforcement of the Public Health Ordinances of his predecessors, the unsatisfactory state of trade, and the financial losses caused by an appallingly destructive typhoon, had to be met by novel expedients - indeed, experiments. But his singleness of purpose, and the rapidity with which he gathered the threads of the knotted and twisted net of Hongkong affairs, soon convinced all classes that \"his heart was in it.\" It became known that there was no hole-and-corner business with Sir Frederick, who must have everything on a straight basis. His care for the sufferers in the typhoon is especially to be seen in the Taikoo-tsui refuge, which it is hoped will be completed at an early date. His solicitude for the requirements of all is shown in every direction in the prosecution and improvement of public works, no less than in the reduction of expenses. The Tytam reservoir is a great and necessary work which he will not leave unfinished.\n\nThe Chinese and Europeans of the educated classes have been brought nearer by the wise and statesmanlike policy of Government House towards the Chinese under his regime. It is unnecessary here to dilate on the great advances that he has made, and how for the first time the Chinese of the highest class are at last coming into social contact with Europeans of the same social circle, and in the relations of the Government with that of Canton, the finest tact and determination not to disagree have marked His Excellency's administration.\n\nOne of his greatest and most enduring achievements is one noble in its purpose, vast in its ideals, and successful in its steps. How deeply and widely the University of Hongkong will influence China it is hardly daring to prophesy, but it will, without question, become the centre of Western education out here, and the meeting place of the civilised thought of East and West. While Brigadier-General Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., goes home to get that rest to which three of probably the hardest years in his life (harder perhaps than lion-hunting in Nyassa-land or administering Uganda) have richly entitled him, he leaves behind in the stones and spirit of the Hongkong University an imperishable name.\n\n## The Governor's Departure \n\n### HIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS \n\n(Special to the \"Hongkong Telegraph.\")\n\nWith the departure on leave to-morrow of Sir Frederick Lugard, the Colony loses temporarily an administrator whose term of service has been marked in more ways than one by the development of its interests and the furtherance of its progress. His Excellency assumed the reins of government on the 25th of July, 1907, in succession to Sir Matthew Nathan. There is a proneness on the part of Crown Colonists to take exception to military Governors, but certainly in the case of our last two Governors, nothing was there to be found fault with. Few Governors of the Colony made themselves more popular or did better work than Major Sir Matthew Nathan. Nor has Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Lugard failed to keep up with the high ideals set by his predecessor. His Excellency carries away with him the best wishes of this community combined with the hope that he will soon be amongst us again in full fettle and in continued good health.\n\nDuring His Excellency's administration, many very important movements connected with Hongkong's welfare have been projected or carried out. When he arrived in the Colony nearly three years ago, it was suffering severely from trade depression and in a financial sense appeared to be verging on bankruptcy.\n\n### ON BANKRUPTCY \n\nThe first consideration, therefore, which our new Governor had to face was the ways and means for the raising of funds. This all-important problem was made more difficult of solution because of the fact that just about that time the Liberal Government had sent out its fiat that the opium traffic had to come to an end. This, of course, meant a big reduction of revenue, for the opium trade had for years represented one of the most productive of Hongkong's feeders of the public purse. Though the stoppage of the opium imports was to be gradual, its effect was immediately felt by the Colonial Treasury, and His Excellency took up the prudent policy of approaching the Colonial Office and demanding that Hongkong should receive compensation for the loss of trade revenue caused by the restrictions put upon her by the Home Government. His representations proved to be so powerful and to the point that guarantees were given of an imperial grant partially to cover the deficit which their opium decree had served to create.\n\nAs it was very happily put in the address presented yesterday by the Chinese Community: \"Since Your Excellency came to give peace in this state, all the business of administration has been carried on by you with success, but you have regarded the development of education and the encouragement of talent as your most important duty, and all your energies and faculties have been devoted to its establishment of a University; now the foundation stone has been duly laid and the magnificent project is on the way to realisation. We feel confident that in the future the result of the education given in the University will fulfil all expectation.\"\n\nCertainly, the greatest project with which Sir Frederick Lugard's name will remain associated for all time is the history of Hongkong - the University scheme. From the very day that he arrived in the Colony, His Excellency lost no opportunity of impressing upon the people that the establishment of a University was one of the most crying needs in our midst. Whilst not belittling by any manner of means the excellence of existing scholastic institutions, he was of the sound and definite opinion that Hongkong required a University of her own. So forcible did his arguments prove that they penetrated to the hearts of all, and now, through the generous liberality of Sir Hormusjee Mody and the Chinese communities of Hongkong and Canton, as well as that of local merchants, we have witnessed the materialisation of Sir Frederick's scheme, which not very far distant date was generally regarded as visionary and impracticable.\n\nSir Frederick Lugard has enjoyed the pleasure of seeing his hopes fulfilled and of himself laying the foundation stone of Hongkong University. It may be that he will yet be occupying the Governorship of the Colony when the time comes for it to be opened, and such a consummation would be entirely fitting and gratifying to all concerned. At the presentation of the Chinese address yesterday, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai expressed the hope that during his sojourn in England, Sir Frederick would be able to obtain still further donations towards the University scheme and its endowment, and His Excellency assured his hearers, with characteristic terseness, that he would do his best, though pointing out at the same time that the matter is one that primarily affects us out here.\n\nBut it is not only in the case of the University that His Excellency has left his distinctive work upon our Colonial administration. To the matter of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, and especially of the British section, he has shown intense interest and endeavour to speed on the work and keep down expenses, which unfortunately have amounted to so much more than the estimates. His Excellency has kept himself in constant touch with the progress of the line and has made many journeys along the track in order to see for himself how things were proceeding. His last visit was made only a few days ago, on which occasion he was accompanied by the principal Government officials. The party traversed the whole route to the boundary by rail, with the exception of No. 4 bridge, which had to be crossed on foot. So that Sir Frederick will be able to report favourably, when he reaches home, upon the constructional progress if not upon the stated costs.\n\nOne could dilate almost endlessly upon the many public measures that have been effected under the aegis of Sir F. Lugard. Space permits of dealing with only a few of the more important. But this article would be incomplete without reference to the financial policy initiated by His Excellency when the funds of the Colonial Exchequer had become depleted and the revenue was still falling. Some bold step was obviously necessary to make ends meet.\n\nPage 383", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\n1.\n\nEnclosure\n\n271\n\nJapanese Consulate,\n\nHongkong, 17th June, 1910.\n\nCO\n\n20334\n\nRece'd 15 SEP 10\n\nWith reference to your communication under the date of June 4th, 1910, No. 472, regarding the proposed site for a Chapel and crematorium, I have visited with Mr. Wright, your deputy, the place shown in the plan you sent me the other day, and after consultation with the committee in connection with this scheme, I am requested by them to state as follows:-\n\n1. There is no objection to the site proposed, provided a proper path be opened from the main road up to the nearest point to the site. The path must be wide enough to admit of the passage of a hearse.\n\n2. We wish to have the site for a chapel and crematorium, the area of which would be 60 feet by 120 feet, levelled at the expense of the Colonial Government, while the cost of the erection of the buildings will, of course, be borne by the Japanese Community.\n\n3. We hope also the Government will give the Japanese Community some extra grounds immediately adjoining the site mentioned above, for the purpose of laying out gardens round the buildings, as we are anxious to make the whole as artistic in appearance as possible.\n\n4. We also desire that the Colonial Government will bear the cost of the erection of a suitable boundary fence round the whole area.\n\nIn conclusion, I beg to point out that we are not unaware that the preparation of the site will involve the Government in some expense, but in this connection, I have to state that the death rate among the Japanese community reaches an average of 25 per annum, and that it would be more economical...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430594, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "content_text": "OF Y.\n\n(To accompany Enclosure )\n\nPreliminary Joint Working Agreement.\n\n140\n\nday of the\n\nbrt za dalt boerma aw has bazo 10tq oath .**\n\ndonlwoll a9owded are ad bioda aonnetqxe awob S bis qu S trata\n\nbotasta), ofitant ous ti boɑcoroat od of zodrun ode (notast bne\n\nod bobtrong of tard dosta tzoła!**ua bar+ bootna abw *I\n\n*gl* bagoĵorq aw biA\n\n:trata eds most antsnd dasouls acor* m\n\non gd hobiraty od hlvad foodo sezonon offt to ditit-ono\n\n.toltop? oanaldo offe vi affe*e*-*#07 Bra dalting\n\nTu Tobinwon nułow off dat bine wand\n\not molt dqetrofo? (al’BoTorq\n\n-9730 of doornoh u 5* „tigor a to Jqbnoor oilt do nu datw rodz\n\nď dobry #nortonsmå enb\"wow tato* ode to støth offs tobianos y[Iut-\n\n.au o bab af bar aft\n\n.1* and f) .0 (.be)\n\ndres\n\nThis Agreement made on the\n\nmoon of the\n\nyear of Hauen Tung, corresponding to\n\nthe\n\nday of\n\nOne thousand Nine\n\nhundred and Ten and the contracting parties are-\n\nHis Excellency Liang Shih Yi, Director General of the Chinese\n\nImperial Railways representing the Chinese Section of the\n\nCanton Kowloon Railway from the city of Canton to the boundary\n\nof the Kowloon leased territory under British Control (herein-\n\nafter called the \"Chinese Section\"), of the one part and\n\nHis Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, the Governor of Hongkong,\n\nrepresenting the British Section of Kowloon Canton Railway from Kowloon to the said boundary (hereinafter called the \"British\n\nSection\") of the other part.\n\nNow it is hereby agreed by and between the\n\nparties hereto as follows:-\n\n1.\n\nFor the purpose of this agreement the trains\n\nshall be classified as follows!- \n\nA.\n\nB.\n\nThrough train shall mean train to be run through\n\nfrom one section to the other section and\n\nLocal train shall mean train to be run to the\n\njunction of its section only.\n\n2.\n\nThe parties hereto agree that immediately\n\nafter the connection between the Chinese Section and the\n\nBritish Section of the aforesaid Railway at the station at San\n\n… (which station is hereinafter referred to as \"the junction\") is completed all trains as hereinafter provided shall\n\nbe interchanged at the said junction.\n\n3.\n\nEach section shall in each day run one\n\nthrough train each way and shall be called the daily through\n\ntrain.\n\n4.\n\nOn the arrival of the daily through train\n\nat the said junction the locomotive connection the said daily through train and the train staff shall be interchanged and the receiving section shall provide engine power and the necessary train staff for the said through train to complete its run.\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434752, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Enclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**Note by the Military Attaché, Peking, dated March 7, 1911, on Despatch No. 7, dated January 31, 1911, from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Yünnan-fu, forwarding a Despatch (regarding the line of the frontier) from the Administrator of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Yünnan-fu.**\n\nThe little map showing the line claimed by China (which accompanies Mr. O'Brien-Butler's despatch), the outcome of his investigation of maps with Mr. Hsia, shows the line, in the main, as claimed by the Wai-wu Pu, except that it concedes as British territory the whole of the basin of the Chipway Kha, whereas the line claimed in Prince Ch'ing's despatch of the 30th August, 1906, as well as the line proposed by Taotai Shih crossed that river instead of skirting its basin. The several lines proposed are shown on the sketch map which I attach to this note.\n\nIt must be noted that the map now sent by the consul-general was made by him, and is not signed or in any way vouched for by Mr. Hsia.\n\n## Enclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby.**\n\nA point worthy of note is that the maps produced by Mr. Hsia were the War Office map of Yunnan of 1906 (compiled by Major Davies) as well as a Chinese map; from which it is evident that the Yunnan authorities were well aware of Pienma being within the boundary claimed by Great Britain.\n\nAnother point, however (and perhaps a somewhat unfortunate one), is that the War Office map in question shows (and I think fairly and with reason) a very considerable stretch of the Irrawaddy basin, further north, viz., some 55 miles of the head waters of the N'mai Kha itself (latitude from about 27° 38′ to 28° 23′ north) in the neighbourhood of Chamutong, as well as the sources of the Meh Kha, its eastern large affluent, in the Chiutzu country (Khanung), as being within Yunnan, i.e., on the Yunnan side of the as yet undelimited frontier (marked only by a dotted line). I think it will be found that the Chinese claims to this Chiutzu region will, later on, when the question comes up for discussion, be found to be at least as strong as those put forward with regard to Pienma. In this connection, I would draw attention to the report of M. Gaston Péronne, mentioned in consul Rose's despatch No. 15, dated Tengyueh the 11th May, 1910. M. Péronne's head-quarters had been for the past year at Atuntzu, \"which is now the centre of activity for the Chinese along the north section of the Yunnan border.\" One of His Excellency Chao Erh Feng's agents was then at Atuntzu on special duty; said to be a man of considerable intelligence and activity and believed to be pioneering the proposed \"Third Province\" (comprising parts of Szechuan, Yunnan and Thibet) in an endeavour to include territory as far south as the Atuntzu district, which would strengthen the hold of the Chinese on the tribal lands dividing China from the sphere of British administrative control.\n\nHe went with a considerable escort into the \"inner country\" in the autumn of 1909 and remained three months. \"There seems little doubt that he penetrated at least as far as the Hkamti Shans.\" Since his return, he had been busy making the Atuntzu-Chamutong road, and there were many evidences of the intention of the Chinese to push forward their influence in these regions, which until the last few years were entirely beyond their control. They were sparing no pains to restrict lama influence: establishing schools at the larger centres, and insisting on a regular return of presents from the tribespeople, who include \"black Lisu,\" Lutzu and Chiutzu, in addition to the Thibetan groups. From other sources Mr. Rose learnt that deputies sent out by the sub-prefect of Wei Hsi crossed to the Chiutzu country on the west bank of the Salween and collected tribute during the autumn of 1909; also that two companies of Likiang troops were under orders for the Wei Hsi district (one to be stationed on the Salween and one at Atuntzu).\n\nIt is satisfactory to know that Mr. Barnard's expedition to Hkamti (at the head-waters of the Mali Kha) started from Kamaing on the 10th December, to confer a \"sanad\" (patent of rulership) on the present Sawbwa of that State. Here, at any rate, we are on quite firm ground, as there is ample documentary evidence in support of British suzerainty over Hkamti. As far back as 1892, the then chief was in possession of a document from the deputy commissioner of Bhamo acknowledging his right to the protection of the British Government, and proclaiming his territory to be part of the district controlled by the deputy commissioner of Bhamo.\n\nA point of considerable importance in connection with the question of the upper waters of the Irrawaddy is brought out by a journey made by Mr. E. C. Young from Yünnan through Pienma and Hkamti to Assam in the winter of 1905-6 (vide \"Geographical Journal\" for August 1907). According to his diagrams, the volume of the N'mai Kha considerably exceeds that of the Salween, in about the same latitude, and both are much bigger than the Mali Kha. The measurements are so remarkable that they leave room for doubt as to the sources of the N'mai Kha being within such reasonable distance as to admit of our claiming the whole of the head-waters of the Irrawaddy basin as being in Burmah, and so in British territory. Unfortunately, our knowledge of the geography of the upper waters of the N'mai Kha is very limited, but, at any rate, it would seem to be impossible that its source can be north of a point somewhere in the latitude of Mekong, as the Indian explorer Krishna (A. K.), in crossing to Rima from the Salween, not far north of Mekong, seems to have found no other large stream in his path, but \"proceeded up a small affluent of the Salween, over a 'divide by the Ti La pass (16,100'), and finally down an affluent of the Zayul or Lohit till he reached Rima without much difficulty. We thus possess certain information that between the head of the Assam valley and the Salween, there is but one pass.\"-(Sir Thomas Holdich's \"Thibet the Mysterious,\" p. 213.) No such doubt exists with regard to the head-waters of the Mali Kha, the high snowy barrier of the Nam Kiu mountains, which separates them from the Lohit basin, precluding any possibility of any of them taking their rise farther north. This snowy range seems obviously indicated as the boundary line between Upper Burmah and Thibet along the north of the Hkamti State.\n\nTo revert to the question of the delimitation of the boundary from the southern end of the undelimited portion: I anticipate the most strenuous resistance on the part of the Wai-wu Pu to admitting the Irrawaddy-Salween divide as the boundary northward--at any rate, of the southern confines of the Chiutzu country, about latitude 27° 35' north (for the reasons I have given above, and other reasons set forth below); and it is possible that they may even be able to put forward reasonable claims (that we as yet know nothing of) to some measure of control over portions of the intervening Mara country between the Khanung and Pienma.\n\nThe eastern branch of the head-waters of the N'mai Kha (the Chiu-chiang) appears, as I have mentioned above, to rise in the Tsarong district of Thibet, somewhere near Mekong (on the Salween, in latitude 28° 35′ north), and for three marches up-river from Tulong, the inhabitants of the valley (Chiutzu) pay tribute to the Yei-chih \"mokua\" (in the Wei Hsi sub-prefecture of Yunnan), and northward of that point, they are tributary to Tsarong (Thibet). (See \"From Tonkin to India,\" by Prince Henri d'Orleans, pp. 413, 414.)\n\nI think, therefore, it must be recognised that we may be unable to claim the whole of the waters of the Irrawaddy basin--in fact, that it may be necessary to recognise the \"southern confines of Thibet (mentioned in Sir F. Satow's despatch of the 1st May, 1906, to the Wai-wu Pu) as being somewhere about the latitude of Chamutong, i.e., approximately latitude 28 north (so far as the head-waters of the N'mai Kha are concerned). Furthermore, as below that point proceeding down-river to at least the Chiu Chiang Telo confluence, the inhabitants are tributary to Yei-chih and Wei-Hsi; at Tulong, in 1895, Prince Henri d'Orleans found a deputy from the Wei-Hsi sub-prefect), it would seem, perhaps, the simplest plan to consider that point, viz., the confluence, as a suitable point of departure of the frontier line west-wards from the river N'mai Kha.\n\nDuma on the Reun-nam (which is apparently the most easterly affluent of the Mali Kha) also appears from Prince Henri's narrative to be tributary to a Lisu chieftain subject to Yunnan, but this claim, at this rate, ought, I think, to be contested or compounded for by a payment or some compensation elsewhere. The Reun-nam (affluent of the Mali Kha (?)) is separated from the Telo (affluent of the N'mai Kha) by a very few miles only, and by a single mountain ridge, and it is along this ridge that a suitable frontier line might perhaps be found. From the top of this ridge, Prince Henri remarks \"in the west, a high white range running north-east and south-west was identified by us as the alps of Zayul, on the other side of which lies the basin of the upper Brahmaputra in Thibet. This high white range,\" the Nan Kiu mountains is not more than about 50 miles distant, in a straight line, from the Chiu chiang (N'mai Kha)-Telo confluence.\n\nPage 5\nPage 164", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437871, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "content_text": "73.\n\npastor, the Mission have appealed for some special consideration in the matter and taking all the circumstances into account, I think their appeal is reasonable.\n\n13.\n\nI would therefore submit for your favourable consideration that the cross-hatched portion of the area coloured red on plan 2 comprising about 12,570 Square Feet should be sold to them, without public auction, on the following terms:\n\n(a) Term of lease 70 years, commencing from the date of a letter notifying the approval of the Secretary of State, renewable for one further term of 75 years at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King.\n\n(b) Premium $3,500 or approximately 4 cents per Square Foot, to be paid into the Treasury within 7 days of the date of the letter mentioned in (a).\n\n(c) Crown Rent $850 per acre, commencing from the date of the letter mentioned in (a).\n\n(d) A sum of not less than $7,500 to be expended on buildings which are to be completed within 24 months of the date of the letter mentioned in (a).\n\n(e) The purchaser to construct substantial retaining walls where necessary to obviate landslips in the event of his cutting away the hill to level the lot.\n\n(f) In the event of the purchaser constructing any buildings fronting on the Western boundary of the lot, he will be permitted to form a path on Crown Land between the said boundary and the nullah to westward of same for access to such buildings. Such path to be formed to such levels as the Director of Public Works may require and to be surfaced and fenced to the satisfaction of that officer.\n\n(g) The exact boundaries of the lot to be determined by the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "12- \n\nand 40 Grant Vernacular Schools. The average attendance at all these Lower Grade Schools is 2,196. The total average attendance, \n\nat both grades of school, is 6,303, \n\nThe revenue derived from school fees was $76,056.25 (of which $40,435 was from Queen's College). \n\nTwo schools are limited to children of British parentage. Both these schools (one for boys, the other for girls) are under the Government. In 1911 the combined average attendance at them was 76. \n\nHigher education is represented by the Technical Institute, where instruction is given in the evening in Mathematics, Machine Drawing, Building Construction, Field Surveying and allied subjects; in Chemistry and Physics; in the English and French languages, Book-keeping and Shorthand. There is also a Teachers' Class, at which the junior Chinese masters of Government and Grant Schools are expected to attend. A Kindergarten Class has also been started for teachers in Girls' Schools. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped laboratory. The lecturers are chiefly Civil Servants recruited from the European staffs of Queen's College and the Public Works Department. These officers receive fees for their services. \n\nThe Hongkong University building, the gift of Sir Hormusjee Mody, was almost completed at the end of the year and was opened in March, 1912. It is expected to be open for teaching in the autumn of this year. The first chairs will be those of Medicine, Engineering and Arts. On 31st December, 1911, the Endowment Fund amounted to $839,970.11 in Hongkong currency and a sum £40,098 7s. 3d. in sterling. \n\nV-PUBLIC WORKS, \n\nOf the important works in progress, the Post Office was completed by the middle of the year and the following departments were accommodated on three floors of the building :-Post Office, Treasury, Registrar General's Department, Sanitary Department, Education Department, the District Office for the South of the New Territories and the Audit Department. The extensive basement was partly utilized for postal purposes and partly for the storage of materials required by the Sanitary Department. A fourth floor, which is intended to provide for future expansion, remains unoccupied, but it has been decided to let it for offices in the meanwhile. The Law Courts were practically completed. Substantial progress was made with the Mongkoktsui Breakwater, but all the work executed was invisible, being below low water level. A contract for the reconstruction of the old Western Market was let in September, and fair progress with the foundations had been made by the close of the \n\nyear. \n\nThe following buildings were completed:-Kowloon Market; Additions to No. 2 Police Station; Staff Quarters, Kennedy Town Hospital; Police Station, Ts'un Wan; Reconstruction of Government Pavilions; Hospital at the Quarantine Station, Lai Chi Kok; Workshops and Sheds for Ambulances at the City Disinfecting Station; Coal Shed, Tai Po; Latrines in Mee Lun Tang and Rutter Street and a Trough Closet in Queen's Road West under the ramp leading to the Government Civil Hospital. The following building-works were in erection --Sanitary Office in Wanchai District; Additional Storey and Extensions, Yaumati English School; Market and Slaughter House, Aberdeen; Stables, Yaumati Disinfecting Station; Quarters for Searchers, Imports & Exports Office; Lighthouse and Quarters, Kap Shing Mun; an extension of the Maternity Hospital and the Reconstruction of Coolie Quarters at the City Slaughter Houses to admit of the provision of further accommodation for slaughtering pigs. \n\nThe diversion of Wongneichong Road past Inland Lot 1698 was completed and extended northwards to join the permanent alignment of that section of the road which had previously been formed. The area formerly occupied by No. 2 Tank was filled in. A path from Bowen Road to May Road, bifurcating towards the latter road, was completed and paths from Boundary Path to Kennedy Road and from Chamberlain Road to Plantation Road were in progress. A diversion of Bonham Road to admit of an extension of Inland Lot 751 was also in progress, the necessary works being executed at the expense of the lessees of the lot mentioned. A road to the site of a proposed Japanese Crematorium in Sookunpoo Valley was completed. In the New Territories, the sections of road extending from Ping Shan to Au Tau and from San Tin to Au Ha Gap were completed. As it was decided to utilize the last-named section for a light railway, to extend from Fan Ling Railway Station to Sha Tau Kok, the necessary extension of the road to the latter place was abandoned, a track for the light railway taking its place. The construction of this track and the laying of the light railway were carried out by the Railway Administration. A pier was constructed in Castle Peak Bay and connected with the road to Ping Shan and Au Tau. \n\nThe training of some of the nullahs between Bowen Road and Magazine Gap to the eastward of the Military Hospital was completed, and a considerable amount of such work was executed to the south of Magazine Gap in the valley below the Military Sanitarium, the Military Authorities sharing the cost of the latter work. A considerable length of the nullah at No. 12 Bridge, Shaukiwan, was also trained and the stream past Pokfulam Village was channelled and otherwise improved. In Kowloon, an extension of the nullah in Waterloo Road to the north of No. 4 Railway Bridge was carried out. Underground tanks were constructed at the junction of Arbuthnot Road and Wyndham Street and in Stone Nullah Lane for the purpose of flushing the low-level sewers, the necessary connections with the sewerage system being made. The laying of a sewer in Craig Road to intercept the drainage from houses on the southern slopes of Mount Gough, &c., was undertaken and connections with a number of the houses were carried out. Extensive drainage works were also executed in Shaukiwan West and Shamelippo. \n\n13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439150, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "PROPOSED EX: OF S.B.STABLES AT No1 POLICE STATION.\n\nPOLICE!\n\n1900 AMB BAI\n\nENCE\n\n5 B\n\nPOUN\n\nPOLICE\n\nLATRING\n\nBAS1800 FENCE.\n\nCOOLIE\n\nQUARTERS\n\nNEI POLICE STATION\n\nPROPOSED\n\nDUSTBIN\n\nTO FOR\n\nSOLE QUARTERS\n\nBATH\n\nCOOK HOUSE SBRICK\n\nPROPOSED FODDER\n\nSTORE\n\nPARTYTUBI\n\nSTABLES FOR 22 BULLOCKS\n\nOVERSEES QUARTERS\n\n1\n\nCA\n\nC.S.O.No 3626\n\n09\n\nSECTION OF LEAN TO SHED\n\nFOR BULLOCKS\n\nWATER\n\nTROUGH\n\nBRICK BOUNDARY\n\nWALL 6FT HIGH\n\nSHED FOR CARTS\n\nENTRANCE\n\nSCALE INCHES & FEET\n\nU.WING\n\nP.W.DEPT\n\nP.N.C.-Sheet 73.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448269, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "27973\n\n482\n\nREC\n\n(c).\n\nREGE 31 JUL\n\nThe area to be only used as a Cemetery for Eurasians and to revert to Government unconditionally when not required for this purpose.\n\n(d). The lessees to construct substantial retaining walls where necessary to obviate landslips, in the event of their cutting away the hill to level the site.\n\n(e). The lessees to construct such fences or boundary walls as the Director of Public Works may consider necessary and to his satisfaction.\n\n(f). The lessees to pay into the Colonial Treasury on demand the sum of $6.25 for each boundary stone supplied and fixed by the Director of Public Works. The stones will be required to define the lot.\n\n(g). The lessees to pay to the Land Officer on demand the sum of $30.00 for the new Crown lease.\n\n(h). The lessees to train any existing stream-courses at present crossing the lot to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works within six months of the date of a letter signed by the Director of Public Works calling upon them to do so.\n\n(i). The Government to take over the path formed by the lessees shown cross-hatched red on plan on payment of $2,500 as compensation.\n\n(j). The exact boundaries of the lot to be determined before the issue of the Crown lease.\n\n(k).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449532, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "119\n\n# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Public Works, Recurrent\n\nThe total increase under this head is $99,300. This large increase is only apparent, as the expenditure for the current year which was estimated at $481,000 will probably be exceeded by a sum of $107,600, so that the estimated expenditure for next year, which has been framed with a view to avoiding the necessity for supplementary votes, is rather lower than the expenditure for the current year.\n\nIn the estimates for next year an important change has been made by including under the heads \"Buildings\" and \"Communications\" special votes for improvements.\n\n## Public Works, Extraordinary\n\nWith regard to Hongkong under the heading \"Buildings\" the sums provided for the first fourteen items are to complete the works mentioned therein.\n\nUnder Item 15 a sum of $60,000 has been provided for commencing the erection of quarters for certain married European Subordinate Officers, for which it is proposed to charge rent.\n\nThis is an entirely new policy on the part of the Government, and has been brought about by the very high rents which have to be paid in Hongkong and which weigh heavily on officers with families.\n\nIt is estimated that the rents which are to be charged will yield a fair return on the capital expended. An excellent site at the back of Leighton Hill has been selected for the quarters, of which there will be twelve, six containing five rooms and six containing four rooms in the form of flats.\n\nItem 16. — Housing of European Subordinate Officers, $50,000. The total estimate of $80,000 includes a sum of $30,000 for an addition to the Harbour Office Buildings, which will contain on the ground floor a new Liquors Office and on the first and second floors quarters for two married or four single Revenue Officers. The quarters now in occupation at Breezy Point have proved entirely satisfactory.\n\nItem 17 refers to much needed extension of the Central Police Station, details of which will be laid before you when you consider the Estimates.\n\nUnder the heading \"Communications\" a further extension of the road from Victoria Gap to High West is provided for at a cost of $10,000. It has been decided to call this road \"Lugard Road\" after the late Governor. A sum of $36,000 is provided for completing the road from Aberdeen to Deep Water Bay. The road will be twenty feet in width with easy gradients.\n\nA sum of $60,000 is provided for paving the main roads in the City of Victoria in accordance with a scheme which you will remember was contained in the Report of the Public Works Committee dated the 2nd March, 1914, and laid before this Council on the 4th June, 1914. The scheme has received the approval of the Secretary of State, and it is proposed to make a beginning next year.\n\nProvision has also been made for a pathway from Kennedy Road to Macdonnell Road, the want of which has been much felt, for an improvement of the sharp corner at the bottom of Garden Road, and for a path from Queen's Road East to Kennedy Road to give access to sites which have been sold recently in that neighbourhood.\n\n## Drainage\n\nYou will observe that under Item 26 a considerable sum is to be devoted to training nullahs and for Miscellaneous Drainage Works.\n\n## Miscellaneous\n\nUnder this head a sum of $8,000 is provided for another telephone cable across the harbour. The capacity of the present cable is already taxed almost to the utmost, and with the continued extension of the telephone system in Kowloon and the New Territories it has become necessary to provide a new eight-core cable.\n\nA sum of $3,000 is required for continuing the survey of the Colony, and $1,000 for purchase of boundary stones, under a new system whereby the stones are paid for by the Government and sold as required.\n\nThe improvements to the record-room in the Colonial Secretary's Office, for which a sum of $1,200 is provided, consist of rendering half the present library fireproof, and it is intended to place there the more valuable records of the Colony in order to preserve them from destruction.\n\nItem 45 Resumption of Piers $10,500 is the first step towards improving the ferry services between Hongkong and Yaumati and Shamshuipo. A Bill dealing with the scheme, which is the outcome of the report of a Committee appointed by me early in the year to consider this important subject, will be laid before you shortly.\n\nPage 120\n\nThe Director of Public Works will be glad to show you the plans of the road programme when you consider the Estimates. The section now provided for is that from Ta Ku Ling to join the Fan Ling-Shataukok road.\n\n## Kowloon\n\nTurning now to Kowloon, a new market is provided for at Shamshuipo at a cost of $18,000 and an extension to the Kowloon British School of two classrooms costing $7,500.\n\nA sum of $6,500 is provided for certain necessary additions to the Royal Observatory.\n\nItem 56 represents an extension of the scheme of Rented Quarters, to which I have already referred, and is intended to provide a building containing two flats in the grounds of the Royal Observatory for the Chief and First Assistants.\n\nItem 57 is for six quarters for European subordinates.\n\nUnder Lighting provision is made for a considerable extension including a row of lamps down the middle of Salisbury and Nathan Roads. Under \"Miscellaneous\" a sum of $212,000 is provided to complete the Typhoon Refuge at Mongkoktsui, and a sum of $29,000 to complete the Repairing and Coaling Yard for Government Launches.\n\nThe item of $1,000 for resumption of piers is in connection with the improvement of the ferry service to which I have already alluded.\n\nA new filter bed, which is much needed, is provided for at a cost of $18,000.\n\n## New Territories\n\nUnder Buildings provision is made for completing the Police Station at Lok Ma Chau and for beginning the erection of a station at Ta Ku Ling.\n\nA market at Tai O is provided for at a cost of $4,500.\n\nUnder Communications you will observe that under Item 78 (b), (c), (d), and (e) it is proposed, if the Secretary of State approves, to embark on a large programme of road construction, and widening of existing roads. After careful consideration it has been decided that a minimum width of formation of twenty feet should be adopted for all new roads.\n\nItem 78 (f) provides for the improvement of a portion of the road from Kowloon to Taipo by cutting back the banks at sharp corners and improving the curves.\n\nItem 79 is a contribution of $1,000 by the Government, being one-third of the cost of a bridge, which is being erected by the villagers over the Shatin river.\n\nThe total sum which it is proposed to expend on Public Works Extraordinary is $2,229,785, exceeding the amount in the previous year by $98,985. The programme has been carefully revised, and works which were not of great urgency, although desirable, have been postponed. Notwithstanding this the total is higher than in any previous year, and so far as I am able to judge there is little hope of any considerable reduction until the completion of the Tytamtuk Scheme.\n\n## Post Office\n\nA sum of $1,440 has been entered for three additional 5th Grade Postal Clerks, who are required in connection with the establishment of branch Post Offices at Shaipingwan (likely \"Saiyingpun\"), Wantsai, and Yaumati. Provision has also been made for Radio-Telegraph Staff for the Wireless Station at Cape D'Aguilar and for the Staff at the General Post Office. The total under this head is $18,499, and a sum of $253 is provided for miscellaneous expenditure for the same purpose. The staff includes two 4th Grade Telegraphists, one 5th Grade Telegraphist (to be 4th Grade in 1915) and one Messenger, transferred from the Harbour Office.\n\n## Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\nThe Estimate of Revenue and Expenditure for 1915 is as follows: Earnings $435,600 and working expenses $323,455, leaving a balance of $112,145 net profit. Compared with the estimate for the current year this shows an increase of $10,754. The experiment of running night trains has been tried during this year, but has not proved successful. Footnote (3) to Appendix II shows the estimated result of next year's working. The deficit to be made up from General Revenue is $458,510 as against $469,264 last year.\n\n211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455815, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 511, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "77\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nExpenditure\n\nGovernor, Special Expenditure. Colonial Secretary's Department\n\nand Legislature Colonial Secretary's Department.\n\nSpecial Expenditure Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs,\n\n85,873\n\nThe Italian Convent\n\nHON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, \"An\n\nOrdinance to provide for the incorporation of the Mother Superioress in this Colony of the Society of the \"Daughters\n\nof the Charity of the Canossian Institute,' by which the institution known as the Italian Convent is carried\n\n250\n\n57,452\n\nQui.\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\nAudit Department\n\n100 34,146\n\nAudit Department. Special Expenditure\n\n100\n\nTreasury\n\n86,000\n\nHarbour Master's Department\n\n181,247\n\nHarbour Master's Department. Special Expenditure\n\n140,200\n\nImports and Exports Department\n\n967,774 22,649\n\nThe Objects and Reasons state that the Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute (best known as the Italian Convent) have acquired land in the Colony for the purposes of carrying on their charitable work. Difficulties have arisen, and may hereafter arise, in holding and dealing with such land, as it has at present to be vested in the name of some individual in trust for the Convent. In order to get\n\nover such\n\nRoyal Observatory Royal Observatory. Special Expenditure\n\nMiscellaneous Services\n\nJudicial and Legal Departments Judicial and Legal Department.\n\nSpecial Expenditure Police and Prison Departments... Police and Prison Department.\n\nSpecial Expenditure Medical Department\n\nMedical Department, Special Expenditure\n\ndifficulties it is desired that the Convent should be incorporated by Ordinance. Similar incorporation has taken place in the past in the case of other Missions for similar reasons. The present Bill effects such incorporation and contains the necessary provisions for evidencing the authority of the Mother Superioress for the time being.\n\n1,118,289 | 280,532\n\n830\n\n977,459\n\n3,860\n\n247,005\n\n2,674\n\nSanitary Department\n\n979,748\n\nSanitary Department Special Expenditure\n\nBotanical and Forestry Department\n\nEducation\n\nEducation, Special Expenditure Military Expenditure\n\nVolunteers\n\nPublic Works\n\nPublic Works Department Public Work Department.\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\nPublic Works, Recurrent\n\nPublic Works. Extraordinary..\n\nPost Office\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway-\n\nPost Office Special Expenditure\n\nWorking Expenses\n\nExpenses of Construction\n\nCharge on account of Public Debt Pensions\n\nCharitable Services\n\nTotal\n\nHON. MR. SHELLIM seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-Council stands adjourned until this day week.\n\n49,216 357,782\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the Colonial Secretary presiding.\n\n2,300\n\n66,783\n\n455,294\n\n900 580,400 1,279,400\n\n474,789 1,310\n\n313,905\n\nJudicial Expenses\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one hundred and thirty dollars ($130) in aid of the vote Judicial and Legal Departments, C.- District Officer, Other Charges, Northern District, Incidental Expenses.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—This sum of $130 is\n\nThe\n\n186,198 required in connection with the house of\n\n54,000 the District Officer at Taipo. gardens and grounds there have been put\n\n362,000 in very good \"order, and in order to keep them properly, certain implements have\n\n42,737 to be purchased: a lawn mower, roller and other things, and it is essential that\n\n$ 9,081,209 the implements shall be such as will last, and this sum is the lowest estimate at which they could be got. There are frequent changes in the holder of the office and the Government therefore purchased\n\nthese tools.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\nPublic Works\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Communications, Roads, General Works.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—I will ask the Director of Public Works to explain this Vote.\n\nIn\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS—It arises out of the constructing of road, in front of new buildings erected. the case of Taiwong Lane the expenditure was $2,120, Amoy and Swatow Streets, half cost, $2,085, On Lan Street, $720, Wanchai Road and Burrows Street $870, Rutter Street, half cost, $425. After making provisions for other items which have been executed, a total sum of $2,850 is required, and this vote of $3,000 is asked for.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—In the case of Amoy and Swatow Streets and Rutter Street, half the cost has been paid by the owners.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT—When there are estimates for work to be done cannot you allow some sort of margin for this sort of work? You refer to Wanchai Road, for instance. All these new buildings were started a long time ago, and you must have known that you would have to make roads.\n\n505\n\n78\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS—The provision made in the estimates this year is very small, I was absent from the Colony when the estimates were prepared and I am unable to explain why so small an amount was provided.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—The necessity for these things could not be foreseen. It was at the request of the owners of the private streets that the streets should become public streets, and it is the policy of the Government to take over private streets whenever that is possible.\n\nCompensation\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Compensation for the pathway along the eastern boundary of the Eurasian Cemetery.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN—The existing pathway at this cemetery has been diverted in order to give right of way to the public over the existing path, and therefore the authorities of the cemetery have to be compensated.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS—It is a case of taking over a path constructed by the cemetery authorities, and it will be very useful as a public path.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT—Whom are you paying the money to?\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS—It goes to the cemetery authorities. The path affords very direct access to people coming from the Pokfulum district down to Kennedy Town to catch the tram there.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463505, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 597, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "## Public Works, Recurrent\n\nThe total increase under this head is $99,300. This large increase is only apparent, as the expenditure for the current year, which was estimated at $481,000, will probably be exceeded by a sum of $107,600, so that the estimated expenditure for next year, which has been framed with a view to avoiding the necessity for supplementary votes, is rather lower than the expenditure for the current year.\n\nThe **HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL** decided to call this road Lugard Road after the late Governor. A sum of $36,000 is provided for completing the road from Aberdeen to Deep Water Bay. The road will be twenty feet in width with easy gradients.\n\nIn the estimates for next year, an important change has been made by including under the heads Buildings and Communications \"special votes for improvements.\"\n\n## Public Works, Extraordinary\n\nWith regard to Hongkong under the heading Buildings, the sums provided for the first fourteen items are to complete the works mentioned therein.\n\nUnder Item 15, a sum of $60,000 has been provided for commencing the erection of quarters for certain married European Subordinate Officers, for which it is proposed to charge rent. This is an entirely new policy on the part of the Government, and has been brought about by the very high rents which have to be paid in Hongkong and which weigh heavily on officers with families. It is estimated that the rents which are to be charged will yield a fair return on the capital expended. An excellent site at the back of Leighton Hill has been selected for the quarters, of which there will be twelve, six containing five rooms and six containing four rooms in the form of flats.\n\nItem 16. Housing of European Subordinate Officers, $50,000. The total estimate of $80,000 includes a sum of $30,000 for an addition to the Harbour Office Buildings, which will contain on the ground floor a new Liquors Office and on the first and second floors quarters for two married and four single Revenue Officers. The quarters now in occupation at Breezy Point have proved entirely satisfactory.\n\nItem 17 refers to a much-needed extension of the Central Police Station, details of which will be laid before you when you consider the Estimates.\n\nUnder the heading Communications, a further extension of the road from Victoria Gap to High West is provided for at a cost of $10,000.\n\nA sum of $60,000 is provided for paving the main roads in the City of Victoria in accordance with a scheme contained in the Report of the Public Works Committee dated the 2nd March, 1914, and laid before this Council on the 4th June, 1914. The scheme has received the approval of the Secretary of State, and it is proposed to make a beginning next year.\n\nProvision has also been made for a pathway from Kennedy Road to MacDonnell Road, the want of which has been much felt, for an improvement of the sharp corner at the bottom of Garden Road, and for a path from Queen's Road East to Kennedy Road to give access to sites which have been sold recently in that neighbourhood.\n\n### Drainage\n\nYou will observe that under Item 26, a considerable sum is to be devoted to training nullahs and for Miscellaneous Drainage Works.\n\n### Miscellaneous\n\nUnder this head, a sum of $8,000 is provided for another telephone cable across the harbour. The capacity of the present cable is already taxed almost to the utmost, and with the continued extension of the telephone system in Kowloon and the New Territories, it has become necessary to provide a new eight-core cable.\n\nA sum of $3,000 is required for continuing the survey of the Colony, and $1,000 for the purchase of boundary stones, under a new system whereby the stones are paid for by the Government and sold as required.\n\nThe improvements to the record-room in the Colonial Secretary's Office, for which a sum of $1,200 is provided, consist of rendering half the present library fireproof, and it is intended to place there the more valuable records of the Colony in order to preserve them from destruction.\n\nItem 45 Resumption of Piers $10,500 is the first step towards improving the ferry services between Hongkong and Yaumati and Shamshuipo. A Bill dealing with the scheme, which is the outcome of the report of a Committee appointed by me early in the year to consider this important subject, will be laid before you shortly.\n\n## Kowloon\n\nTurning now to Kowloon, a new market is provided for at Shamshuipo at a cost of $18,000, and an extension to the Kowloon British School of two classrooms costing $7,500.\n\nA sum of $6,500 is provided for certain additions to the Royal Observatory.\n\nItem 56 represents an extension of the scheme of Rented Quarters, to which I have already referred, and is intended to provide a building containing two flats in the grounds of the Royal Observatory for the Chief and First Assistants.\n\nItem 57 is for six quarters for European subordinates. Under \"Lighting,\" provision is made for a considerable extension, including lamps down the middle of Salisbury and Nathan Roads. Under \"Miscellaneous,\" a sum of $212,000 is provided to complete the Typhoon Refuge at Mongkoktsui, and a sum of $29,000 to complete the Repairing and Coaling Yard for Government launches.\n\nThe item of $1,000 for resumption of piers is in connection with the improvement of the ferry service to which I have already alluded.\n\nA new filter bed, which is much needed, is provided for at a cost of $18,000.\n\n## New Territories\n\nUnder Buildings, provision is made for completing the Police Station at Lok Ma Chau and for beginning the erection of a station at Ta Ku Ling.\n\nA market at Tai O is provided for at a cost of $4,500.\n\nUnder \"Communications,\" you will observe that under Item 78 (b), (c), (d), and (e), it is proposed, if the Secretary of State approves, to embark on a large programme of road construction and widening of existing roads. After careful consideration, it has been decided that a minimum width of formation of twenty feet should be adopted for all main roads. The Director of Public Works will be glad to show you the plans of the road programme when you consider the Estimates. The section now provided for is that from Ta Ku Ling to join the Fan Ling-Shataukok road.\n\nItem 78(a) provides for the improvement of a portion of the road from Kowloon to Tai Po by cutting back the banks at sharp corners and improving the curves.\n\nItem 79 is a contribution of $1,000 by the Government, being one-third of the cost of a bridge, which is being erected by the villagers over the Shatin river.\n\nThe total sum which it is proposed to expend on Public Works Extraordinary is $2,229,785, exceeding the amount in the previous year by $98,985. The programme has been carefully revised, and works which were not of great urgency, although desirable, have been postponed. Notwithstanding this, the total is higher than in any previous year, and so far as I am able to judge, there is little hope of any considerable reduction until the completion of the Tytamtuk Scheme.\n\n## Post Office\n\nA sum of $1,440 has been entered for three additional 5th Grade Postal Clerks, who are required in connection with the establishment of branch Post Offices at Saiyingpun, Wantsai, and Yaumati. Provision has also been made for Radio-Telegraph Staff for the Wireless Station at Cape D'Aguilar and for the Staff at the General Post Office. The total under this head is $18,499, and a sum of $253 is provided for miscellaneous expenditure for the same purpose. The staff includes two 4th Grade Telegraphists, one 5th Grade Telegraphist (to be 4th Grade in 1915), and one Messenger, transferred from the Harbour Office.\n\n## Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\nThe Estimate of Revenue and Expenditure for 1915 is as follows: Earnings $435,600 and working expenses $323,455, leaving a balance of $112,145 net profit.\n\nCompared with the estimate for the current year, this shows an increase of $10,754. The experiment of running night trains has been tried during this year but has not proved successful. Footnote (3) to Appendix II shows the estimated result of next year's working. The deficit to be made up from General Revenue is $458,510 as against $469,264 last year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463518, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 610, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Expenditure\n\n**Governor**. Special Expenditure.. Colonial Secretary's Department \nand Legislature Colonial Secretary's Department. \nSpecial Expenditure Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, \nSpecial Expenditure\n\n| Department | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Italian Convent | 85,873 |\n| | 500 |\n| | 2. |\n| | 86,951 |\n| | 250 |\n| | 57,452 |\n| | 100 |\n| | 34,146 |\n| | 100 |\n| | 66,006 |\n| Audit Department | 181,267 |\n| Treasury | |\n| Harbour Master's Department | 140,200 |\n| Imports and Exports Department | |\n| Royal Observatory | 967,774 |\n| | 22,649 |\n| Miscellaneous Services | |\n| Judicial and Legal Departments | |\n| Police and Prison Departments... | |\n| Medical Department | |\n| Sanitary Department | |\n| Botanical and Forestry Department | 379,748 |\n| Education | 49,216 |\n| Military Expenditure- Volunteers | 357,782 |\n| Public Works | 2,300 |\n| Public Works Department Public Work Department. | 66,783 |\n| Post Office | 455,234 |\n| Kowloon-Canton Railway- Working Expenses | 300 |\n| Expenses of Construction | 580,400 |\n| Charge on account of Public Debt | |\n| Pensions | |\n| Charitable Services | |\n| Total | 9,081,209 |\n\nHON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK moved the first reading of Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Mother Superioress in this Colony of the Society of the \"Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute,\"** by which the institution known as the Italian Convent is carried on.\n\nThe Objects and Reasons state that the Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute (best known as the Italian Convent) have acquired land in the Colony for the purposes of carrying on their charitable work. Difficulties have arisen, and may hereafter arise, in holding and dealing with such land, as it has, at present, to be vested in the name of some individual in trust for the Convent.\n\nIn order to get over such difficulties it is desired that the Convent should be incorporated by Ordinance. Similar incorporation has taken place in the past in the case of other Missions for similar reasons. The present Bill effects such incorporation and contains the necessary provisions for evidencing the authority of the Mother Superioress for the time being.\n\nHON. MR. SHELLIM seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - Council stands adjourned until this day week.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the Colonial Secretary presiding.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one hundred and thirty dollars ($130) in aid of the vote Judicial and Legal Departments, O.- District Officer, Other Charges, Northern District, Incidental Expenses.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - This sum of $130 is required in connection with the house of the District Officer at Taipo. The gardens and grounds there have been put in very good order, and in order to keep them properly, certain implements have to be purchased; a lawn mower, roller and other things, and it is essential that the implements shall be such as will last, and this sum is the lowest estimate at which they could be got. There are frequent changes in the holder of the office, and the Government therefore purchased these tools.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.\n\n### Public Works\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Communications, Roads, General Works.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - I will ask the Director of Public Works to explain this vote.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - It arises out of the constructing of roads in front of new buildings erected. In the case of Taiwong Lane the expenditure was $2,120, Amoy and Swatow Streets half cost, $2,085, On Lan Street, $720. Wanchai Road and Burrows Street $425. $870, Rutter Street, half cost. After making provisions for other items which have been executed, a total sum of $2,850 is required, and this vote of $3,000 is asked for.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - In the case of Amoy and Swatow Streets and Rutter Street, half the cost has been paid by the owners.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT - When there are estimates for work to be done cannot you allow some sort of margin for this sort of work? You refer to Wanchai Road, for instance. All these new buildings were started a long time ago, and you must have known that you would have to make roads.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - The provision made in the estimates this year is very small. I was absent from the Colony when the estimates were prepared and I am unable to explain why so small an amount was provided.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - The necessity for these things could not be foreseen. It was at the request of the owners of the private streets that the streets should become public streets, and it is the policy of the Government to take over private streets whenever that is possible.\n\n### Compensation\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Compensation for the pathway along the eastern boundary of the Eurasian Cemetery.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - The existing pathway at this cemetery has been diverted in order to give right of way to the public over the existing path, and therefore the authorities of the cemetery have to be compensated.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - It is a case of taking over a path constructed by the cemetery authorities, and it will be very useful as a public path.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT - Whom are you paying the money to?\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - It goes to the cemetery authorities. The path affords very direct access to people coming from the Pokfulum district down to Kennedy Town to catch the tram there.\n\nThe vote was agreed to.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469428, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "fail to find a single opium-poppy. On arrival at Lungling, the consulate writer and I were entertained to a Chinese dinner-party in his yamên,\n\nThe discovery of only one solitary field of opium along the route between Nantien and Lungling must, I think, be taken as evidence of the strenuous efforts which have been made during the past few months to eradicate all traces of the prescribed plant; from one or two more talkative residents encountered en route I obtained admissions of a considerable recrudescence of cultivation during last year, but all agreed as to the thorough measures of suppression carried out since November last. In the T'engch'ung district, for instance, no less than three separate expeditions of eradication had been sent out, under territorial, military, and police officials respectively, and it is only just to place on record that their duties were performed in a very thorough manner.\n\nThe normal order of procedure was for my caravan, headed by the writer and myself, to take the lead, and for the Taoyin's more imposing party to bring up the rear. The 1st April was, however, appropriately celebrated by the failure of the Taoyin's party to keep touch with us at a parting of the ways, this added some 2 miles for them to the long and undulating road to Siangta. Thence to P'ingka is normally reckoned as a single though lengthy stage for caravans; at the Taoyin's request we split it into two, halting at the small hamlet of Huchiachal, 7,000 feet high, picturesquely situated in the midst of dense groves of bamboos. At Huchiachal we encountered our first rain, and thereafter we had not a single rainless day until the 19th April. From Pingka to Hankuai, high above the right bank of the Salween, with a magnificent view of the lofty mountains on the other side, was another long day's march.\n\nThe crossing of the Salween was a tedious business for so large a cavalcade; two bamboo rafts were provided, taking only some five mule-loads or ten men on each trip; the method of propulsion across the swift current was by a species of flat umbrella fashioned of stout bamboo; at each end of the craft an \"oarsman\" plied one of these cumbrous weapons by plunging it into the water and pulling it towards himself with powerful strokes.\n\nArrived at the left bank of the Salween, we were in the Chênk'ang district; and at the head of the very long and stiff ascent from the river we were met by the local magistrate, Tang Te-ch'uan, a pleasant elderly official, who travelled with us until we left his jurisdiction. Tê-tang, where his official residence is, was our third halt after crossing the Salween; this place was made memorable for me by a sufficiently unhappy experience. Somewhere about A.M. a gale of wind, accompanied by torrents of rain, brought my tent down over my head, and my slumbers to a beautifully abrupt close.\n\nThe town of Chênk'ang was reached next day. Formerly there was a Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Chenkung, but his downfall was brought about as the result of the Manchu viceroy, Hsi Liang's, policy for the gradual absorption of the Chinese Shan States into direct Chinese administration; and save for a few picturesque ruins of the Sawbwa's palace, the place is now shorn of any pomp and circumstance it may have once possessed.\n\nTwelve days' travel, although for the most part along comparatively unfrequented routes, had now disclosed but one solitary field of opium-poppy, and I therefore decided on a somewhat rash experiment. None of the four maps of Yunnan which I took with me gave any indication of a road from Chênk'ang to Mienning, the next district town on my list, and the recognised routes between these two places are circuitous in the extreme, passing through either Shunning or Yünchow. I ascertained, however, that a road practicable for chairs existed, and elected to attempt it. Fortunately, by this time the Tengyueh Taoyin had resigned himself to accepting my lead, or he would almost certainly have protested. For five days we followed the roughest of mountain paths, which had in many places to be prepared overnight for our transit by the felling of trees and clearing of jungle. At none of the intermediate halts, Pank'a, Maulung, Hup'o, and Manlai, we were assured, had a white traveller ever been seen, and I cannot recommend my example as one to be lightly followed. The only camping-ground to be found at Manlai was on a wind-swept spur projecting out of a deep ravine, and once again a sudden hurricane brought my tent crashing down.\n\nBelow Manlai our route crossed the Namting River by a ford which would obviously be impracticable during the heavier rains of midsummer. At the Namting we quitted the Chênk'ang district and entered the jurisdiction of the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Kengma. During our six days of travel through Chenkang territory we had found no opium crops whatever, though I learnt that there had been a small harvest of the earliest sown poppy. The magistrate was said, however, to have been indefatigable in the work of eradication, and I was assured—not by himself—that since November of last year he had never been in residence at his post for five consecutive days.\n\nDuring our day and a-half through the jurisdiction of the Kengma Sawbwa we were escorted by his Shan-Chinese clerk, who was full of his recent visit to Rangoon and Lashio in attendance on his master. The road from the left or south-east bank of the Namting River was a terribly steep ascent for some 3,000 feet, which we negotiated in pouring rain; this was succeeded by a hair-raising path—with an average breadth of 14 inches at the most—for some 5 miles along the edge of a precipice. After the heavy rain the surface of red laterite was so treacherously slippery that I felt safer on my sure-footed Yunnan pony than on my own legs.\n\nOur next halt, the Shan village of Chepi, was on a route traversed more than twenty years ago by H. R. Davies, the standard authority on the province of Yunnan, and doubtless by other foreigners since; here for the first time I abandoned my tent, in favour of a comparatively clean temple.\n\nAt this point we were met by a guard of honour sent out to meet us by the P'uêrh Taoyin, who had arrived at Mienning, our pre-arranged meeting-place, on the 11th April. I owe the noisy but efficient commandant a debt of gratitude for his thorough arrangements for my comfort at each of our halting places throughout the Mienning district.\n\nFor several days in succession I had seen nothing whatever of the Tengyueh Taoyin; at Chêpi, however, much to my surprise, he rode over to call on me. The reason for the visit was only apparent when he propounded the astonishing request that as during seventeen days' travel in his circuit we had only found one field of opium-poppy, I would overlook it in my report to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires.\n\nOn my replying that, had we found one hundred I should be bound to report one hundred, and that I must equally report the one; he then suggested that I should add a rider that the field found was close to the scene of military operations against the offending Kachins. To this I rejoined that I had been over the country in question and he had not, and that I knew for a fact that the two places were at least two and a-half days' journey apart. Soon afterwards he took his leave, considerably crestfallen.\n\nApril 14th: Shortly after leaving Chêpi the road to Mienning makes a very steep ascent of some 3,000 feet, on to a lofty shoulder, the view from which on a clear day must be magnificent, embracing extensive country in the jurisdiction of Shunning and Kengma, in the Tengyueh circuit, and Mienning in the Puerh circuit. On an open bit of grass land just beyond a pillar marking the boundary, a large booth had been erected, and we were met by the Puerh Taoyin and the Mienning district magistrate, each of whom furnished a guard of honour. The Puerh Taoyin, Lu Pang-shun, a Kiangsu man aged 56, has held office for the past twenty-one years in Yunnan, and possesses a very thorough knowledge of the province. Two periods of service he has spent in Tengyueh, first as sub-prefect in Manchu times, and secondly as taotai under the Republic in 1913. The Mienning magistrate, Hsieh Yunan, has formerly held a billet in the War Office in Peking; he struck me as being unusually intelligent and capable.\n\nAt Pingyehhsün, where we halted for the night, the two Taoyins came over to call. From the first, Mr. Lu showed up very favourably beside his Tengyueh colleague, and displayed a friendly acquiescence in my suggestions with regard to our joint tour.\n\nThe following day we reached the ancient walled city of Mienning, inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Shans, while Lolos and natives of several other tribes inhabit the surrounding villages. On arrival at the city, we were escorted for a sort of Jericho-tour round the walls before being conducted to the old lieutenant-general's yamên, especially done up for the occasion, where ample quarters were provided for both Taoyins and their escorts, and a refreshingly clean and well-aired suite of rooms was set apart for me.\n\nMy caravan had now been on the move for nineteen consecutive days; men and animals had, I felt, well earned a rest, and I accepted without compunction the friendly invitation of Lu Taoyin and the magistrate to stop over one day in Mienning. The first night they entertained the Tengyueh Taoyin and myself at dinner; the next day they gave me a bathing-party picnic at a hot sulphur spring some 3 miles outside the town.\n\nFor the journey from Mienning to Szemao my first care was to ascertain the route followed by Lu Taoyin to the rendezvous; he had come, as I expected, by the most direct road through Chingku hsien (the modern name of Weiyuant'ing of Manchu times). I asked Mr. Lu point-blank whether he had seen any opium cultivation on his outward journey; he replied that a few isolated patches had been sown at the beginning of the season.\n\n[2729 -1]\n\n298", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469430, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 304, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "we traversed in his district boasted its own small bureau for the furtherance of the task, while the magistrate's extensive tours of inspection included a journey to the summit of Wu-Liang-Shan, between 11,000 and 12,000 feet high.\n\nLeaving Chingtong on the 15th May, three days' journey brought us to the boundary between the Puerh and Tengyueh circuits, at Shukai (locally pronounced Chakai). Here we found that the Tengyueh Taoyin and the Menghua district magistrate a self-satisfied little man named Chrên Pên-yu had been awaiting our arrival for three days. Before bidding farewell to the Puerh Taoyin, I gave him a letter detailing our route through his circuit and congratulating him on the fact that we had discovered not a single opium-poppy in a month's journey. In the course of an interesting conversation, Mr. Lu freely admitted that the task of suppression had been considerably easier in his circuit than elsewhere in the province; he was no less frank regarding the prevalence of opium-smoking, and expressed the opinion that from three to five years must elapse before this would be stopped.\n\nDuring the whole time that I had travelled with the P'uêrh Taoyin I had met with nothing but courtesy and kindness at his hands, and it was with real regret that I parted with him and resumed the company of the Tengyueh Taoyin. Two days' travel, the first of which gave us a magnificent and extensive view of Wu-Liang-Shan, brought us to Narchien, where our halt coincided with that of an unusually ragged and ruffianly party of Chinese regular troops, en route to suppress a local outbreak of brigandage some two days' journey to the south-west. Here I received a visit from the district magistrate of Mitu, a Fukienese named Ko Nain-ming, the limit of whose jurisdiction was only a mile or so away. Two days later, 21st May, the large walled town of Menghua was reached, and here, much against my wish, we stayed a day at the request of the Taoyin, who asserted the receipt of important despatches requiring urgent attention.\n\nThe large district of Menghua is one of those which took the fullest advantage of the iniquitous permission accorded last year by the Governor of Yunnan for the cultivation of poppy; if rumour speaks true, the early harvest of the past season was considerable, and the local magistrate is asserted to have lined his pockets well by allowing a second crop, on learning that the inspecting officers would not be able to reach his district before May. But for several weeks prior to our arrival, military, police, and civil officials, including himself, had been out in all directions to ensure that no poppy should be left. Certainly none was to be seen along our route, and the predominating crops consisted of healthy-looking wheat.\n\nFrom Menghua it is but two days' journey to Siakwan, the largest business town in West Yunnan; on the second day the route crosses a high mountain pass, which from the level of 8,800 feet affords a magnificent view of the Tali lake.\n\nAssembled at Siakwan, which was reached on Empire Day, to meet the Taoyin were a host of Chinese officials, including the magistrates of the three districts of Fengi (Ch'en Pei-yuan); Pinch'uan (Li Fan); and Tali (Yu-Yueh). Such a gathering involved, of course, the inevitable Chinese dinner-party. For many years past Siukwan has been one of the largest distributing centres for opium in all Yunnan, and the Chinese firm in whose premises quarters were found for me bears the reputation of being the wealthiest of all the opium dealers.\n\nThe 7 miles over level country between Siakwan and Tali should be accomplished by a good pony in an hour; so villainous, however, is the condition of the ancient stone-paved highway connecting the two places, that the journey takes three hours, and is accomplished with less exasperation on foot. Many weeks previously the local British representative of the British American Tobacco Company had offered me hospitality in his most comfortable headquarters at Tali, but in view of the questionable legality of such an establishment, I had hesitated to accept; when, however, the Taoyin himself announced that this was the proposed arrangement, I concurred with alacrity. Amongst the many welcome amenities thus afforded was comparative immunity from flies, which for the previous fortnight en route had been a plague of positively Egyptian magnitude. My host also most kindly made arrangements for me to meet the whole of the foreign community of Tali, including M. R. L. P. Baude (French), district inspector of the Salt Revenue for Yunnan, and his wife; M. Caffarena (French), of the same Department; and two French priests.\n\nFrom Tali it had been originally suggested that the inspection tour should continue northwards to Likiang. Previous to our departure from Tengyueh I had invoked the aid of a French merchant at Atutzu and of the representative of a British mission at Likiang to obtain for me, confidentially, reliable information on the subject of poppy crops in the north-west of the province; and letters from each of them were awaiting me at Siakwan. My French correspondent reported planting this season in the north of the Paoshan (Yungch'an) district and north-east of Yungpei, but that none remained, save, perhaps, in inaccessible spots; the Likiang missionary affirmed that already by the middle of April no trace of cultivation remained in the Likiang, Hoching, or Chiench'uan districts, and that in the Yungpei district (north of the Yangtze) it was probably grown only by Liso and other tribal folk, over whom the Chinese have practically no control. These reports were confirmed at Tali by the Rev. W. J. Hanna, of the China Inland Mission, and by the representative of the British-American Tobacco Company, both of whom travel extensively, and who assured me that it was several weeks too late for any likelihood of discovering opium crops on a visit to Likiang.\n\nIn view of this consensus of opinion and also of the clear indications of the opening, already overdue, of the rainy season, I decided to abandon the Likiang tour. As, however, I had received many weeks previously definite information that no poppy crops were to be seen anywhere along the main road (via Siakwan, Yungp'ing, and Yungchang) between Tali and Tengyueh, I elected to take the difficult and circuitous route via Tongch'uan, Yünlung, and Kait'ou; this route, incidentally, cuts across the north of the Paoshan (Yungch'ang) district.\n\nLeaving Tali on the 27th May, our first stage was the 16 miles of terrible ancient paved stone road to Shangkuan, at the north-west end of the Tali Lake. We bade farewell to the Tali magistrate and made the acquaintance of Mr. Li Kung-ch'ôn, the official in charge of the district of Tengch'uan. This town was passed the following morning after two hours of easy going, succeeded by a stiff climb to 8,900 feet, and a steep descent to the surprisingly large town of Fengyü (in the Erhyüan (Langk'un) district), lying in a huge basin of terraced rice fields. For the last portion of this day's journey and for the next two days we were accompanied by the Erhyüan magistrate, a Hupei man of an intelligently enquiring turn of mind, named Chien. From Fengyü the road climbs up to 10,700 feet, and then drops down to 6,100 feet, the level of the Yangpi River, which flows through the town of that name and Siakwan into the southern end of the Tali Lake. Two days of travel through beautiful pine-forest country and one day of wilder scenery past several large salt-wells brought us to the town of Yünlung, the district magistrate of which, Ko Yên-ch'un, was absent on sick-leave.\n\nFrom Fengyü to the district of Yünlung the population consists largely of Minchia, a tribal folk closely allied to the Chinese in appearance, as also now in dress and habits, but speaking Chinese with an atrocious foreign accent, which natives of any other province than Yünnan find considerable difficulty in understanding.\n\nThe town of Yunlung lies at the eastern foot of the lofty range flanking the left bank of the Mekong River, and the day's journey to the 60-year-old chain suspension bridge (the Fei-Lung, or Flying Dragon, bridge) over that turgid torrent consisted of a climb from 5,500 feet to 9,700 feet, succeeded by a long and stony descent to 4,600 feet, the elevation of the Mekong at this point. The fierce swiftness of its 80 yards broad current is sufficiently accounted for by the fact that it descends over 1,800 feet between here and the Tapêng ferry by which we crossed it on the outward journey.\n\nBut a still more formidable day's march lay before us, over the yet higher range on the right bank of the Mekong. The altitudes on this section varied between 5,000 feet at the start (Chinchou), 11,800 feet at the summit, and 7,000 feet at the halting-place, Ts'aochien. Almost the whole of the climb was over the roughest of stone-boulder paving, and much of it in deep trough-like gullies, while, save at the very summit, the path was overgrown by dense jungle. Climatic variations added not a little to the trials of the march; they ranged from blazing sunshine, through fine Scotch mist, to driving sleet, and then back again to moist heat. Starting at 6.30 a.m., I walked this stage in nine and a half hours; the Taoyin's official chair, from which, willy-nilly, he was frequently forced to descend, completed it in thirteen and a half. Our respective memories of the day's journey will last for some time to come.\n\nAfter two more days of very hilly travel, we came to the crossing of the Salween, here effected in a large, unwieldy-looking boat, the helmsman of which plied a huge stern sweep, some 20 feet long, to negotiate obliquely the passage of the intervening rapids. From the level of the Salween at this point (Mêngku ferry) to the summit of the range, on the right bank, is an ascent of all but 8,000 feet, and the climb over the summit, 10,500 feet, through dense jungle, followed by a steep and terribly rugged drop of close on 4,000 feet, made a day's journey scarcely less arduous than that over the Mekong range.\n\nThe trials of this day's travel were not over on arrival at our halting-place...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469433, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "303\n\n14\n\nnative; and that its possibilities as an opium-growing district are conspicuously small compared to other parts of China.\n\nI append an itinerary* of my route through Eastern Yunnan, and also a map with the route indicated.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1,\n\nConsul Tours to Mr. Alston,\n\n(No. 20.) Sir,\n\nIchang, July 12, 1917. IN accordance with your telegraphic instructions of the 3rd March last, I have inspected the province of Kueichow for opium-poppy cultivation, and I now have the honour to enclose herewith my report thereupon.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1,\n\nB. G. TOURS,\n\nReport of an Inspection of the Province of Kueichow, to learn the Amount of Cultivation of Opium Poppy.\n\nUNDER instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, sent to me by telegram dated the 3rd March, 1917, I left Icheng on the 10th March, and, travelling via Chungking, reached the Ssu-chuan-Kueichow border on the 5th April. Arrangements had been made through His Majesty's consul at Chungking that the Chinese official delegates for the inspection of Kueichow province for opium-poppy cultivation should meet me at Sungkau, a town due south from Chungking, lying 3 or 4 miles within the Kueichow border. The delegates met me at midday on the 5th April at a village just inside the provincial boundary. They were four in number, the special commissioner being Mr. Shen Chi, director of the land office at Kueiyang. Mr. Shen is a native of Chekiang, 35 years old, and a graduate of the military college in Japan. He was formerly commissioner in the Bureau for Suppression of Opium poppy in Chekiang province. Of the three assistant-commissioners only one, Mr. Chien Chih-wan, took any prominent part in the inspection. Mr. Chien is also from Chekiang; 30 years old. His post is secretary in the Kueiyang post-office; he was formerly Deputy for Foreign Affairs at the port of Wenchow.\n\nOn arrival at Sungkan I found the town gay with flags and the streets thronged with people. Semi-military hands, chiefly recruited from the schools, joined our cavalcade outside the town, and played us into our destination for the day, a yamen of the Salt Administration. On arrival I held a conference with the Chinese delegates to settle our daily procedure; but the only point on which they appeared at all interested was the route which I proposed to take through the province. I told the delegates that the route depended on so many things, such as our rate of progress and weather conditions, that it was impossible to lay down any fixed route. We arranged some minor points regarding the daily despatch of the luggage caravan at 6 A.M. and our own daily departure at 7 A.M., and to these hours we adhered throughout the journey.\n\nI had decided in my own mind to proceed to Tsun-yi, although I felt tolerably certain that that was the route designed by the Chinese authorities. My reason for this was that it had been reported in Chungking that a priest of the Roman Catholic Mission in Kueiyang had travelled from Kueiyang to Chungking via Tsun-yi in December and early January, and had seen a considerable amount of opium-poppy in flower along the route. I had great doubts as to the possibility of the correctness of this statement, the flowering season in Kueichow being April in a forward season and May in a late season. However, the statement had been made so definitely that I deemed it advisable to travel over the priest's route as far as Tsun-yi. I was, however, very soon satisfied, from the state of the crops generally, that no flowering had been seen in January, and that flowering could scarcely have commenced in early April, the season this year being a late one.\n\nFrom Sungkan to Tsun-yi (83 miles) the country consists of gently rolling hills and fertile valleys, all thickly cultivated. The main crops were beans, rape, and peas, in the order named; all were just coming into flower, and looked very strong and healthy. A good number of fields were cropless, and I looked carefully for any signs of destruction of young poppy plants, but if there had been such destruction the work had been thoroughly carried out, so that not a vestige remained except the bare fields.\n\nAt Tung-tzu, half-way between Sungkan and Tsun-yi, I found a Roman Catholic mission, and I called on the resident priest, Père Drouhot, who told me that in January stringent orders were issued for the destruction of all opium poppy plants in the neighbourhood. Severe punishments were inflicted on those who did not immediately comply, and three of the more recalcitrant planters were killed by shooting. As a result of these stern measures all the poppy crops had entirely disappeared, and Père Drouhot was of the opinion that not a single plant remained growing for many miles round Tung-tzu. I told him the Chungking story of poppy flower having been seen in Kueichow in January, and he said there must be a mistake, as such a thing was impossible. He mentioned that the Tung-tzu officials had been much exercised in mind over my visit, and were very desirous to receive me well and not to give me any ground for placing Tung-tzu in my black books.\n\nOur escort from Sungkan had consisted of a few men of the local magistrate's police, although the frontier districts are popularly supposed to be infested with brigands; but at Hsin-chan a body of soldiers arrived from Kueiyang as our escort to accompany us through the province. Mr. Shen informed me that the Governor of Kueichow had originally sent 200 soldiers from Kueiyang, but that a large number of them had found the marching too strenuous, and had dropped off at various places; so that our escort really numbered only some eighty men. Apart from such dignity as they were able to lend to the expedition, however, a dozen men would have been just as useful and more convenient.\n\nAt Tsun-yi (210 miles from Chungking) I rested the caravan for one day. I failed to meet the Roman Catholic priest in charge of the Tsun-yi mission, but Mr. and Mrs. Olesen, of the China Inland Mission, received me very kindly, and Mr. Olesen gave me much local information. He corroborated Père Drouhot's information regarding the official energy and the drastic steps that had been taken in the last three months to destroy every trace of the poppy crops. Many punishments had been inflicted, and any owner who was considered dilatory in uprooting and destroying his crop was punished by confiscation of his land. I visited one large temple, with grounds extending over several acres, which had been so confiscated; the land was marked off into lots, which had been sold or rented by the authorities to various schools and institutions for use as vegetable gardens. Rewards had been offered by the Chinese authorities for any poppy plant discovered in the district; and this had led to many cases of blackmail, chiefly by the soldiery. Many wild rumours had been rife in Tsun-yi as to the scope of the official inspection. One rumour had it that I should make a house-to-house visitation, and should severely punish any person suspected of being an opium smoker. As a result of this rumour many opium smokers had fled the town a day or two before my arrival. Another, still more ridiculous, rumour stated that Great Britain was arranging a peaceful acquisition of the three provinces of Szechuen, Kueichow, and Yunnan, and I was the pioneer to make the preliminary arrangements for taking over the provinces.\n\nMr. Olesen was on the point of making an extended journey in the north-east of Kueichow province; and I asked him to be good enough to let me know what conditions he found on his travels. He informs me that from Sze-nan to Chen-yuan conditions were much the same as in the Tsun-yi district - drastic official measures for suppression of the poppy crop and severe punishment of those disobeying the official instructions, the death penalty being inflicted in a few cases.\n\nThe road from Sungkan to Tsun-yi had been one continuous triumphal procession. Every village and town was decorated with flags, and triumphal arches of bamboo and evergreen were erected in the streets of the larger towns. I was clearly on the expected route. I had, however, satisfied myself that no flowering poppy had been seen as stated in Chungking, and I decided to turn my road towards the west. It was fairly clear that the Chinese expected me to visit the capital of the province, and that the country on the way thereto would be thoroughly cleared of any poppy in anticipation of my visit. On the evening before our departure from Tsun-yi, therefore, I signified to the Chinese delegates my intention of proceeding westwards. The delegates at once came to see me, objecting to my proposal, and saying that the westerly roads were bad and dangerous, and that part of the country was infested with brigands, and that there were no villages large enough to accommodate our party at night. I brushed aside these objections. Where there was a path we could go; where there were brigands we had our brave escort; where there was even a small village we", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497574, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# \nIn connection with improvements to Kennedy Road, the portion of this carriageway to the West of the Magazine was diverted and formed to a minimum width of 25 feet, and No. 1 Bridge near the junction with Garden Road was widened to 30 feet.\n\nMention may also be made of improvements being carried out to Bonham Road, Pokfulam Road, and Conduit Road.\n\nIn Kowloon, the 1st Section of the Kowloon City to Mongkoktsui Road was completed, but the cutting in connection with the 2nd Section progressed slowly, owing to the large quantities of rock encountered.\n\nGood progress was made with the cutting for the extension of Argyle Street to its junction with Waterloo Road, and that for the Section between the latter road and the Kowloon Boundary in connection with its extension.\n\nOwing to heavy rock cutting, the progress in connection with the extension of Coronation Road Northwards through the hill (formerly K.F.L. 11) was considerably delayed, but by the end of the year a temporary road was available, connecting this road with Taipo Road.\n\nFair progress was recorded in connection with the Taipo to Shun Wan Road, and the Patrol Path from Sheungshui to the Frontier.\n\nThe work of metalling and tar-painting the hilly portion of Laichikok-Castle Peak and Taipo Roads was continued during the year.\n\n## DRAINAGE\n\nA contract was let for extending the Mongkoktsui Nullah East through the Railway Bridge and the excavation for foundations were well in hand. The Mongkoktsui Nullah was extended to the Boundary of Old Kowloon and completed in July.\n\nThe training and diversion of the large stream course to the East of Laichikok was completed.\n\n## WATER WORKS\n\nA contract was let in April for the construction of the Eastern District Filter Beds and a commencement made at once with the work. Fair progress was made by the end of the year.\n\n-27-\n\nAfter consideration and upon the advice of the Consulting Engineers to the Crown Agents, it was decided to order one Steam Pumping Unit for the additional Plant in connection with the Taitam Tuk Scheme.\n\nWith regard to the Pokfulam Road Station, the extension to the Engine House was completed, a new Boiler House erected, and the installation of the Pumping Plant completed.\n\nWork was commenced in connection with the Distribution System for Lower Wanchai Gap District, and that for the Repulse Bay was extended so as to serve the lots situated near Deep Water Bay.\n\nIn Kowloon, a considerable amount of work was executed in enlarging mains with a view to improving the distribution system there, and two new Filter Beds and a Gauge Basin were added near Laichikok.\n\nPreparatory work in connection with the new Shek Lai Pai Reservoir was proceeded with, and a considerable amount of investigation work connected with the Shing Mun Scheme was also effected.\n\nThe Taipo Water Supply Scheme proceeded satisfactorily. The original scheme for a Water Supply at Fanling was completed in 1921, and the extension thereto was commenced in July and finished in September, 1922.\n\n## RECLAMATIONS\n\nThe Reclamation Scheme at Aplicbau was completed.\n\nGood progress was made with the Praya East Reclamation Scheme, and the filling in of the Tidal Flat and the cutting down of the hill between Taikoktsui and Fak Tei Tsuen.\n\nSteady progress was also made with the further reclamation work at Shamshuipo, and in connection with a scheme of reclamation at Cheung Sha Wan.\n\nWork was continued on certain private reclamation works, and, in the case of the Kai Tak Land Investment Company, some further progress was made.\n\n## PIERS\n\nThe reinforced concrete Pier opposite Queen's Statue was completed, and tenders were invited for the structural steel roof and facade to the Praya.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG ESTIMATES \n### PUBLIC WORKS.\n\n| Original Estimate. | Revised Estimate. | Approved Revised Estimate | Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1924 | 1924 | | | 1925 |\n| 4,421,200 | 12,000 | 30,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |\n| 25,000 | X | 10,000 | 5,000 | 45,000 |\n| | | 6,000 | . | 10,000 |\n| | | 25,000 | X | 10,000 |\n| | | 40,000 | 3,000 | 25,000 |\n| | | 200,000 | X | 15,000 |\n| | | X | 40,000 | 64,500 |\n| | | 40,000 | | 3 |\n\n### 3. PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRA-ORDINARY,― Contd.\n\nBrought forward, \n**BUILDINGS,—Continued** \n68 Slaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui, \n69 Workshop and Quarters for Electrical and Telephone Staff, ... \n70 Police Married Quarters, Mongkok, \n71 Yaumati Police Camber alterations, \n72 Married Quarters for Police, Yaumati, \n73 Erection of married quarters over Garage, Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station,. \n74 Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Lo Lung Hang (near Hung Hom),. \n75 Extension to existing Market at Mong Kok Tsui, \n76 Store for Goverument materials near Railway,. \n77 Quarters for Clerical Staff, \n78 Police Married Quarters Hunghom, \n79 Public Latrines, Urinals and Bath houses,..... \n\n| | Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | 1924 | 1925 |\n| **COMMUNICATIONS** | | |\n| 80 Roads :- | | |\n| (a.) Main Roads, Kowloon, | 16,000 | 100,000 |\n| (b.) Improvements to existing main roads for motor traffic, | 194,000 | 100,000 |\n| (c) Waterloo Road Extension (100 feet wide) Section between Waterloo Road and the Kowloon Boundary (estimate for 50 foot width), | 100,000 | 50,000 |\n| (d.) Tokwawan Road (100 feet wide) Section between Kowloon City Road and K.M.L. 90,.... | 350,000 | 30,000 |\n| (e) Argyle Street, Extension to its junction with Waterloo Road, | 6,000 | 10,000 |\n| (f) New Road through King's Park and Cemeteries Area, Homuntin: formation of 30 foot width and | 4,000 | |\n| Swing Om Bridge across Railway 60 feet wide, | 297,000 | 200,000 |\n| (g.) Macadamizing and tar painting to New Main Roads, | 150,000 | 100,000 |\n| | 60,000 | 12,000 |\n| | 10,000 | 50,000 |\n| | 160,000 | 50,000 |\n| (k.) Widening Salisbury Road to correct alignment, | 50,000 | 80,000 |\n| | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| 81 General Works, | 160,000 | 210,000 |\n| | 50,000 | 93,950 |\n| | 50,000 | |\n| **DRAINAGE** | | |\n| 82 Training Nullahs:- | | |\n| (a.) Mongkoktsui Nullah East, extension through Railway Bridge, | 116,000 | 120,000 |\n| (b) Matauchung, training and diverting main stream course, | 50,000 | 40,000 |\n| (c.) Homuntin District, Training stream course in new Cemeteries Area, | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| (d.) General Works, | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| 83 Miscellaneous Drainage Works :- | | |\n| (a.) Matauchung District, stormwater drainage, | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| (b.) Main sewer from Fuk-tsun-heung to Kowloon Tong, East of Railway, | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| | 10,000 | 30,000 |\n| | 35,000 | 35,000 |\n| | 5,000 | 30,000 |\n| Carried forward,.... | 5,940,200 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499784, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## PUBLIC WORKS.\n\n| Original Estimate. 1924. | Revised Estimate. 1924. | Approved Expenditure 1924. | Estimated Expenditure 1925. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $ | $ | $ | $ |\n\n### 3. PUBLIC WORKS EXTRA-ORDINARY.—Contd.\n\nBrought forward, $7,840,200\n\n#### COMMUNICATIONS.\n\n114 Roads :-\n(a) Metalling and tar painting hilly portion of Lai Chi Kok-Castle Peak and Taipo Roads, | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000\n(b) Taipo Market, kerbing and channelling, &c., | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000\n(c) Taipo Road,-Widening and improving from 5th milestone to Shatin... | | 1,000 | 6,000\n(d) Widening eleven bridges, | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000\n(e) Surfacing and strengthening those portions of main road running through paddy, | 45,000 | 45,000 | 20,000\n(f) Extension of Roads in Kowloon Tong Development Area, | 10,000 | 20,000 | 20,000\n(g) Waterloo Road extension (100 feet wide) Section between Kowloon Boundary to foot of hills S.E. of tunnel (estimate for 150 foot width), | 160,000 | 13,000 | 5,000\n\n117 Kowloon Tong Development Scheme:— \n(a) Resumption, | 30,000 | 50,000 | 20,000\n(b) Excavation and filling, | | | \n118 Refuse Dump,-Cheung Sha Wan, | 20,000 | 5,000 | 45,000\n119 Chinese Cemeteries, -Laying out new | 10,000 | | \n120 Opening up of Quarry, Castle Peak, | 18,000 | | \n(a) Failing to Sha-tau-kok Road, | 5,000 | | \n(b) Path from Ta Ku Ling to Lin Ma Hang, | | | \n121 Filling in large area at Kowloon City,... | 60,000 | 75,000 | \n122 Telephone cable between Kowloon, Taipo & Fanling, | 15,000 | | \n(a) Road to Shun Wan, | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000\n(b) Taipo Market to Kam Shan,.. | 8,500 | 5,000 | 5,000\n123 Miscellaneous Works, | | | \n(a) Widening two bridges at An Tau and Kum Tsin, | 40,000 | | \n124 Compensation and Resumptions, | 10,000 | 60,000 | 10,000\n(m) Macadamizing Taipo Road between 5th and 9th Mile, | 280,000 | 100,000 | 120,000\n(n) Macadamizing road from Fanling to Sheung Shui Train Halt, | 100,000 | 120,000 | 120,000\n(o) General Works, | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000\n\n#### DRAINAGE.\n\n115 Training Nullahs :- \n(a) One side wall and invert of nullah on Eastern side of the Kowloon Tong Development Scheme,........... | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000\n(b) Kowloon Tong Development Area, connection of stream North of this area to main nullah, | 5,000 | 10,000 | 5,000\n(c) Shamshuipo, extension of existing Nanchang Street Nallah to Taipo Road, | | | \n(d) General Works, | 60,000 | 20,000 | 82,000\n\n116 Miscellaneous Drainage Works :— \n(a) Main sewer from Fuk Tsum Heung | 15,000 | 15,000 | \n(b) Storm water drains from Nan Chang Street Nullah in the direction of Kowloon Tong Village,.................. | 15,000 | 5,000 | 10,000\n(c) Kowloon Tong Development Scheme, Sewers, | 100,000 | 25,000 | 10,000\n(d) Kowloon Tong Development Scheme, portion of Storm Water drains................. | 200,000 | 50,000 | 5,000\n(e) General Works, | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000\n\n#### WATER WORKS.\n\n125 Extension of Kowloon Catchwater,. | 190,000 | 120,000 | 60,000\n126 Shek Lai Pui, Reservoir and Contingent Works, | 260,000 | 200,000 | 75,000\n127 Shing Mun Valley Scheme :- \n(a) Resumptions, | 70,000 | 50,000 | 20,000\n(b) Access road (Tsun Wan to Pine Apple Pass), | 50,000 | 5,000 | 45,000\n(c) Temporary intake and Conduit, | 30,000 | 20,000 | 10,000\n(d) North Conduit, | 25,000 | 10,000 | 10,000\n(e) Tunnels and South Conduit,. | 400,000 | 5,000 | 5,000\n(f) Reception Reservoir, | | | \n(g) Filtering plant and erection,...................... | | | \n(h) Pipe line,... | | | \n(i) Pipers Hill Reservoir, | 50,000 | 90,000 | 10,000\n(j) Harbour Pipe,.......... | 100,000 | 20,000 | \n(k) General Works, | 20,000 | 53,000 | 40,000\n\n128 Kowloon Bywash Reservoir, | 10,000 | | \nCarried forward.................. | $7,840,200\n\n129 Fanling Water Works Scheme, | 30,000 | 40,300 | 7,000\nTotal Public Works, Extraordinary,.. | | | 9,187,200", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500510, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# The CANTON GAZETTE \n**中華郵政局特准排胱認爲新聞纈** \n**廣州日報** \nRegistered at the Post Office as A Newspaper \n**民國十四年九月七日星期一** \nVol III 506 \nCANTON, CHINA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1925, \nSingle Copy: 10 Cta. $2.00 A Month $24.00 A Year\n\n## Young China's Task to Fight Militarism and Imperialism \n### THE DAY OF YOUTH\n\nYoung workers, peasants and students are always the most active elements of a revolutionary movement. They are full of spirit, hardihood and capacity for self-sacrifice in the cause of idealism. This may be proved by many examples from the revolutionary history of every country, both of the Occident and the Orient. We need only recall the movement of the students, directed against Japan in 1919, over the infamous Twenty-one Demands and Shantung, and the latest movement of the students in protest against the massacres of the Imperialists in Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, etc., when the young men were always in the forefront. They press forward into the struggle and carry along their fathers. Our youth have only to be organised and then they will represent irresistible power.\n\n### Special Commission Invites Merchants To Banquet\n\nWe understand that on Friday last, Messrs. Wang Ching-wai, Hsu Sung-chi and Chang Kai-shih, members of the Special Commission, invited the leading merchants of Canton to a banquet at the Provincial Assembly Hall. Generals Hsu Sung-chi and Chang Kai-shih were present, as well as members of the Merchants Associations (about 300). Officials such as Messrs. Tang Chuk-yu, Wu Chao-chu, T.V. Soong, etc., were also present. General Chang Kai-shih addressed the assembly, promising to protect the life and property of the people in Canton. Mr. Liao Chung-kai was one of the leaders who worked for China's National Revolution. The counter-revolutionary forces thought that with Mr. Liao dead, the government would be overthrown. But they are in error. The Kuomintang appreciates the value of the youth and has organized the Youth department to direct the young men's organisations.\n\n### Declaration Of The Workers On The Present Situation\n\nWe, workers of Hongkong and Canton, have gone on a general strike because of the massacres of our brethren by the British and Japanese Imperialists. We strike in the interests of all circles - agricultural, labour, commercial, and educational. We want to see China emancipated. We want to see forces of Imperialism eliminated. The Revolutionary Government, besides being a friend of the peasants and workers, is guiding them on the path of revolution.\n\nMr. Commissioner Wang Ching-wai addressed the guests, explaining the object of the gathering. He stated that the main work of the Government is to carry out the plans left by Mr. Liao. The Nationalist Government is also helping the Peasants and Workers.\n\n### Tasks of the Youth Movement\n\nWhat are the tasks of the Youth Movement? What does Young China aim to attain? Improvement of the economic and social position of the people is their first task. In order to understand this, it is quite enough to read the report of \"The Shanghai Child Labor Commission\", organised by the Shanghai Municipality. Twelve hours working day, working with poisonous stuffs, miserable wages, illiteracy, degeneration: such are the facts which can be found in the report. Should not Youth struggle against such cruelty? Certainly, they should. The struggle against Militarism is the next task of the Youth Movement. The burden of the wars is first felt by the young men. They must declare war against war, against this barbarous evil.\n\nTogether with Imperialism, Militarism constitutes the main obstacle to our National unification and independence. General Chang Kai-shih stated that the troops will shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the peace and welfare of the people. The conspirators and counter-revolutionary elements will be eliminated.\n\n## Opinions Of The Canton Press\n\n### Our Appreciation\n\nThe Day of Youth was solemnly marked by the Canton young men's associations yesterday. A great meeting was organised in the Canton Educational Hall, under the auspices of the Kuomingtang. Many prominent leaders of the Kuomintang were present. Messrs. Wang, Hsu and Chang raised their hands in support of the slogans: \"Down with Militarism,\" \"Down with Imperialism.\" The meeting ended with loud cheers of \"Long live the National Revolution of China.\"\n\nThe vigorous concept of a National Revolution must realize that Liao died in the struggle against Imperialism and counter-revolutionary elements. The Nationalist Government has been working in the interest of our people. The counter-revolutionary forces are again in league with the Imperialists to hinder its activities and progress.\n\n## Conference Held By Workers and Merchants\n\nA meeting was called by the Strike Committee last week to discuss measures for the protection of the Strike after the abolition of the Special Permit. The four Chambers of Commerce were invited, and about fifty persons were present, with Mr. So Shiu-tsing presiding.\n\nSix articles were proposed, namely:\n1. No commodities, respective of their origin, may be imported to Kwangtung from Hongkong; and no commodities may be exported to Macao or Hongkong from Kwangtung.\n2. In Kwangtung, no commodities are to be delivered from or loaded on British ships, or ships touching Macao and Hongkong.\n3. Non-British cargoes may be freely delivered or loaded on non-British ships, provided they do not touch Macao or Hongkong.\n4. Within the boundary of Kwangtung, non-British goods may be sold and non-British ships may sail freely.\n5. Non-British goods now stored in godowns at Kwangtung may be delivered freely, except those prohibited and monopolized by the government.\n6. The above-mentioned articles are to be proclaimed and signed by the 4 Chambers of Commerce and the Strike Committee.\n\n## A British Liberal Paper's Comment\n\nLondon, August 1. (by `Tass`) \"The Manchester Guardian\" commenting on the situation in China says: **The influence of the Bolsheviks in China is the result of the fact that Russia renounced extraterritoriality and that the Bolsheviks take into account the changing psychology in China during recent years. The Bolsheviks live in the present time, while the British imagine that they are still in the Boxers time. If we would treat the Chinese as people produced by our civilisation as well as by their own traditions, we could laugh at the missionaries from Moscow.\"\n\n## Bolsheviks In China\n\nOur Counter-Revolutionists and Imperialists wish the reverse. Dr. Sun's \"Three Peoples Theories\" have not been carried out. Dr. Sun's call for unity of the people to further the revolution is still only on paper, and the combined strength of the Counter-Revolutionists and Imperialists in the country is thus tremendously great.\n\nBy giving liberty to the Counter-Revolutionists, there will be no end to their oppressions. The Government effectively suppressed the activities of the Counter-Revolutionists in Canton recently. We are grateful to the Government for the right steps it has taken. In order to victoriously accomplish this, the first step is to destroy all activities of the Counter-Revolutionists, whose knavish plots are extremely harmful and dangerous.\n\nWe all wish for the long life and prosperity of this Government. From now on, our lives will be more secure, and the activities to further the progress of the National Revolution will be less hampered.\n\nPage 224", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 563, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# Public Works, Extraordinary.—Continued\n\n## Particulars\n\n| Vote | Estimated Saving Now Required | 1924 | Estimated Excess | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | $ | $ | |\n| | 4,749,600 | 693,000 | 5,511,550 | 1,454,950 | Brought forward |\n| | 3,951,200 | 640,000 | 4,447,300 | 1,136,100 | |\n\n## COMMUNICATIONS\n\n### 92 Roads :-\n| Particulars | $ | $ | $ | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| (a) Main Roads, Kowloon | 100,000 | | | |\n| (b) Improvements to existing main roads | 50,000 | | | |\n| (c) Waterloo Road Extension (100 feet | 6,000 | 6,000 | | |\n| (d) Tokawan Road (100 feet wide) Section between Kowloon City Road and K.M.L. | 200,000 | 200,000 | | |\n| (e) Argyle Street, Extension to its junction with Waterloo Road | 42,000 | 12,000 | 30,000 | |\n| (f) New Road through King's Park and Cemeteries Area, Homantin: formation of 30 foot width and Bridge across Railway 60 feet wide | 50,000 | | | |\n| (g) Laying Tramway | 25,000 | | | |\n| (h) General Works | 50,000 | | | |\n| | | | | Brought forward |\n\n## BUILDINGS,-Continued\n\n| Vote | $ | $ | $ | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 86 | 1,200 | 1,200 | | Enlargement of vegetable Lan, Waterloo Road |\n| 87 | | | | Extension of Stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station, garage, and arrangement of workshop, and F.M. No. 4 |\n| 95 | 100,000 | 100,000 | | Filling in Tidal Flat and cutting down hill between Taikoktsui and Fuk Tsun Heung |\n| 88 | 13,000 | 1,000 | 14,000 | Dust Station, Mongkoktsui, Pitt Street |\n| 89 | 1,200 was changed to 3,200 to match the original| Slaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui | 3,200 | 5,200 | 2,000 |\n| 90 | 5,000 | 30,000 | 25,000 | Workshop and Quarters for Electrical and Telephone Staff |\n| 96 | 10,000 | 10,000 | | Kowloon Bay West Reclamation, 1st Section, Area between Now Reclamation and Kowloon City Road and between San Shan and the proposed 100 foot road containing the Matanehuang Nallah |\n| 97 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 12,000 | Furniture for Government Offices and Quarters |\n| 91 | 40,000 | 74,500 | 34,500 | Public Latrines, Urinals and Bath houses |\n| 98 | 8,000 | 8,000 | | Chinese Cemeteries,-Laying out new areas |\n| 99 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 1,000 | King's Park, Laying-out Ground for Recreation purposes |\n| 100 | 1,000 | 1,000 | | Kai Tack Reclamation |\n| 101 | 40,000 | 40,000 | | Government underground Cable Scheme, 1st Section |\n| | 194,000 | 94,000 | | |\n| 102 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 | Providing Plant and opening out quarry at Taikoktsui |\n| | | 50,000 | | |\n| 103 | 10,000 | 10,000 | | Miscellaneous Works |\n| | | | | wide) Section between Waterloo Road and the Kowloon Boundary (estimate for 50 foot width) |\n\n## PUBLIC HEALTH AND Buildings ORDINANCE, 1903\n\n| Vote | $ | $ | $ | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| F. M. No. 10 | 200,000 | | | |\n| 104 | 30,000 | 250,000 | 20,000 | Compensation and Resumptions |\n\n## WATER WORKS\n\n| Vote | $ | $ | $ | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 105 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 50,000 | Distributing Mains, Improvements and extensions |\n| 106 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 | Piper's Hill Service Reservoir |\n| 107 | 30,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | Kowloon Filter Beds Extension, Two new beds |\n| 108 | 8,000 | 8,000 | | Miscellaneous Water Works |\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n### DRAINAGE\n\n| Vote | $ | $ | $ | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 93 | | | | Training Nollahs:- |\n| (a) Mongkoktsui Nallah East, extension through Railway Bridge | 50,000 | 16,000 | | |\n| (b) Waterloo Road Nullah, extension to Temple | | 6,000 | 10,000 | |\n\n## NEW TERRITORIES\n\n### BUILDINGS\n\n| Vote | $ | $ | $ | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 109 | 50,000 | 50,000 | | Gaol and Police Training School, Ngan Shi Wan |\n| 110 | 10,000 | 25,000 | | New Police Station, Shatin |\n| 111 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 10,000 | Quarters for Indian Married Police |\n| 112 | 1,000 | 1,000 | | Quarters for Government Officers, North of Kau Lung Tong &c |\n\n### 94 Miscellaneous Drainage Works :-\n| Particulars | $ | $ | $ | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| (a) Matauchung, training and diverting main stream course, F. M. No. 36 | 15,000 | 2 | 10,000 | |\n| (b) Homantin District, Training stream course in new Cemeteries Area | 50,000 | 40,000 | | |\n| (c) Kowloon Tong Old Village area, Main storm water drain to Mong Kok Tsui Nullah | 25,000 | 20,000 | 5,000 | |\n| (d) Waterloo Road Extension, Storm Water Drainage | 20,000 | 20,000 | | |\n| (e) General Works | 1,000 | 10,000 | 9,000 | |\n| (v) Matanehuang District, stormwater drainage | 10,000 | 10,000 | | |\n\n| Vote | $ | $ | $ | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 113 | 1,000 | 1,000 | | Erection of a brick Bungalow at Tai Po for Public Works Department in place of the existing one |\n| 114 | 3,000 | 9,000 | 6,000 | Quarters for Inspector of Vernacular Education in the New Territories, Taipo |\n| 115 | 5,000 | 5,000 | | Block House for Police, Castle Peak |\n| 116 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 10,000 | District Sanitary Office, Shamshuipo |\n| 117 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 25,000 | New Lunatic Asylum |\n| 118 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 25,000 | Police Station, Kowloon City |\n| 119 | 15,000 | 15,000 | | Police Station, Shamshuipo |\n\n| | $ | $ | $ | |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 4,749,600 | 693,000 | 5,511,550 | 1,434,950 | Carried forward |\n| | 5,678,600 | 729,000 | 6,485,550 | 1,540,950 | Carried forward |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500852, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 564, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Public Works, Extraordinary,—Continued.\n\n| Particulars | Brought forward | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ |\n| Brought forward, | 6,673,600 | | 729,000 | 6,485,550 | 1,540,950 |\n| Brought forward, | 6,341,600 | | 826,000 | 7,168,900 | 1,658,800 |\n\n### BUILDING,-Continued.\n\n| Particulars | $ | $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 120 Cheung Chan School, | 1,000 | | 1,000 | |\n| 121 Un Long School, | 1,000 | | 1,000 | |\n| 122 Public Latrines, Urinals and Bath-houses, | 15,000 | | 15,000 | |\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\n| Particulars | $ | $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 126 Further Reclamation: at Shamshuipo, | 150,000 | 25,000 | 125,000 | |\n| 127 Kaulungtong Development Scheme :- F. M. No. 30.. (4) Resumption, | 60,000 | 25,000 | 10,000 | |\n\n### COMMUNICATIONS.\n\n| Particulars | $ | $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 123 Roads- (a.) Metalling and tar painting hilly portion of Lai Chi Kok-Castle Peak and Taipe Roads, | | | | |\n| (6) Excavation and filling, | | | | |\n| 128 Construction of Waterbout Dock at Lai Chi Kok,..... | 100,000 | 100,000 | | 20,000 |\n| | | | 80,000 | 30,000 |\n| 129 Refuse Dump,-Cheung Sha Wan, | 1,000 | 1,000 | | |\n| 130 Furniture for Government Offices and Quarters... | 3,500 | 3,500 | | |\n| (b) Taipo Market, kerbing and channelling, &c.. | 30,000 | | | |\n| 151 Chinese Cemeteries,-Laying out new areas, | 5,000 | 5,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n| (e.) Taipo Road, Widening and improving from 5th milestone to Shatin,... | 1,000 | | | |\n| 132 Kowloon Bay East Reclamation, formation of Junk building and repairing yards, | 50,000 | 50,000 | | |\n| (2) Widening eleven bridges, (e.) Surfacing and strengthening those portions of main road running through paddy, | 10,000 | 9,000 | 10,000 | |\n| | 40,000 | 30,000 | | |\n| 133 Opening up of Quarry, Castle Peak, | 5,000 | | 5,000 | |\n| 184 Miscellaneous Works, | 15,000 | 15,000 | | 30,000: |\n| Extension of Roads in Kaulung-tong Development Area. (9.) Access Road from Tsün-way to the proposed Water Works an Shing Man Valley, | | | | |\n| (4.) Waterloo Road extension (300 feet wide) Section between Kowloon Boundary to foot of hills S., of Tunnel (estimate for 50 foot width),.. | | | | |\n| (4) Fanling to Sha-tan-kok Road, | | | | |\n| General Works, | | | | |\n\n### DRAINAGE.\n\n| Particulars | $ | $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 124 Training Nullahs:- (a.) One side wall and invert of nullah | 30,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | |\n| F. M. No. 11,. | | | | |\n| 135 Compensation and Resumptions, | 100,000 | 10,000 | 90,000 | |\n| PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE, 1903. | 20,000 | 20,000 | | |\n| | 50,000 | | 20,000 | |\n\n### WATER WORKS.\n\n| Particulars | $ | $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| ..... | 5,000 | 160,000 | 30,000 | |\n| | 60,000 | 10,000 | 100,000 | |\n| | 5,000 | | 49,350 | 19,350 |\n| 136 Extension of Kowloon Catchwater, | 120,000 | 100,000 | 120,000 | |\n| 137 Shing Mun Valley Scheme.... | 50,000 | | 50,000 | 4. |\n| 138 Shek Lai Pai, Reservoir and Contingent Works, | 200,000 | | 100,000 | |\n| 139 Fauling Water Works Scheme, | 7,000 | 100,000 | 7,000 | |\n| on Eastern side of the Kaulungtong Development Scheme, | 50,000 | | 66,000 | 16,000 |\n| (6.) Kanlungtong Development Area, connection of stream North of this area to main nullah, | 50,000 | | 50,000 | |\n| (e) Shamshuipo, extension of existing Nanchang Street Nullah to Taipo link. | 20,000 | | 20,000 | |\n| (d) General Works, | 3,000 | | 5,000 | |\n\n### DRAINAGE.\n\n| Particulars | $ | $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 125 Miscellaneous Drainage Works :- (4.) Main sewer from Fuk Ten Heng in a North-easterly direction to Taipo Road, | 25,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 | |\n| (6) Storm water drains from Nan Chang Street Nullah in the direction of Kanlungtong Village, (c) Kaulungtong Development Scheme, Sewers,. | 15,000 | | 15,000 | |\n| | 25,000 | | 25,000 | |\n| (d.) Kaulungtong Development Scheme, portion of Storm Water drains,................ | 50,000 | | 50,000 | |\n| (e) General Works, | 20,000 | | 53,000 | $3,000 |\n\n| | $ | | $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Carried forward, | 6,341,600 | | 826,000 | 7,168,900 | 1,658,300 |\n| Total,.. | 7,270,100 | 1,021,000 | | 7,952,400 | 1,703,300 | 558 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "# COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.\n\nEstimated. Actual. Increase. Decrease. Provisionally Voted, Explanatory Remarks.\n\n$ $ $ $\n\nBrought forward. 16,643,525 16,329,885.91 1,277,780.20 1,591,489.29\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward 4,812,200 3,859,884.31 932,909.16 1,891,224.85 1,085,520.00\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY,-Conti. Kowloon. Continued.\n\n### Buildings, Continued.\n\nOfficers' Quarters, Kowloon.... 1,000 113.28 Some necessary survey work only undertaken.\n\nHunghom Market Extension, 12 stalls with caulks 6,000 4,912.58 2,000.00 Less work done than anticipated.\n\nTo Kwa Wan Market, 16 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry 12,000 886.72 1,087.44 12,000.00 Not begun.\n\nClosed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market 50,000 50,000.00 Do.\n\nExtension of Stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station, garage, and arrangement of workshop 40,000 40,000.00 Do.\n\nSlaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui 25,000 25,000.00 Do.\n\n### I.\n\nWorkshop and Quarters for Electrical and Telephone Staff. 45,000 48,335.18 3,385.18 Under-estimated.\n\nPolice Married Quarters, Mongkok.. 6,000 13,760.90 7,780.90 Completed. More work done than anticipated.\n\nYaumati Police Chamber alterations 10,000 10,000.00 Not begun.\n\nMarried Quarters for Police, Yaumati 25,000 25,000) 17,000.00 8,000.00 Not begun. Do.\n\nErection of married quarters over Garage, Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station... 10,000 9,278.74 721.26 Not begun.\n\nQuarters for Scavenging Coolies at Lo Lung Hang (near Hung Hom)...... 40,000 40,000.00 Do.\n\nExtension to existing Market at Mong Kok Tsui 8,000 13,448.81 10,448.81 Extra piling found necessary.\n\nStore of Government materials near Railway 25,000 10,500.00 $25,000.00 Expenditure less than anticipated.\n\nQuarters for Clerical Staff 200,000 200,000.00 Do.\n\nPolice Married Quarters, Hunghom..................... 15,000 15,000.00 Do.\n\n### Public Latrines. Urinals and Bath houses,\n\n40,000 20,985.82 10,014.18 Not begun.\n\n## Communications.\n\n### Roads :-\n\n(7.) Main Roads, Kowloon 100,000 58,887.90 41,812.10 Less work done than anticipated.\n\n(6.) Improvements to existing main roads For Motor traffic (c) Waterloo Road Extension (LX) feet wide) Section between Waterloo Road and the Kowloon Boundary (estimate for 50 foot width) 850,000 68,626.45 281,878.55 Cost of plant only; work not begun,\n\n(d) Tokwawan Road (100 feet wide} Section between Kowloon City Road and K.M.L. 90................. 100,000 88,891.86 11,108.64 Slow progress as rapid completion of work was not essential.\n\n(c.) Argyle Street Extension to its junction with Waterloo Road... 50,000 5,600.00 44,440.00 Less work done than anticipated.\n\n(A) New Road through King's Park | and Cemeteries Area, Homantis: formation of 30 foot width and Bridge across Railway 60 feet wide 80,000 35,821.18 44,178.82 Slow progress as rapid completion of work was not essential\n\n(g.) Macadamizing sud tar painting to New Main Roads .... 210,000 210,000.00 The bridge was not completed.\n\n(A.) Widening Salisbury Road to correct alignment 10,000 115,185.77 85,135.77 Not begun.\n\n### General Works ..... 50,000 88,600.00 Necessary to keep pace with the expansion of the district.\n\nCarried forward 5,819,200 4,348,582.20 1,019,589.82 2,490,207.56\n\nCarried forward 16,843,525 16,829,865.91 1,277,780.20 1,691,439.29 1,206,820.00\n\nPage 47\n\nPage 95", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503598, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "50\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.\n\n51\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual.\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\nEstimated. Voted.\n\nExplanatory Remarks.\n\n$\n\nBrought forward\n\n16,648,525\n\n16,329,865.01\n\n$\n\n1,277,780.20!\n\n97\n\n1,591,439.20\n\nPUBLIC WORKS,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\nPUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY,—Contd.\n\nNew Territories,—Continued.\n\nBuildings,—Continued.\n\nQuarters for Government Officers, North of Kowloon Tong Area\n\n6,713,200\n\n5,549,837.62\n\n1,448,344.69\n\n2,611,707.07\n\n1,702,888.00\n\nI\n\n1,000\n\nErection of a Brick Bungalow at Tai Po, for Public Works Department in place of the existing one\n\nBlock House for Police, Castle Peak\n\n1,000\n\n5,000\n\n4,667.18\n\nDistrict Sanitary Office, Shamshipo.................\n\n25,000\n\n1,000.00\n\nNot begun.\n\n1,000.00\n\n382.84\n\n25,000.00\n\nNew Lunatic Asylum:-\n\n(a.) Buildings\n\n20,000\n\n20,000.00\n\n(b.) Site....\n\nPolice Station, Kowloon City\n\n162,000\n\n201,335.41\n\nDo. Shamshaipo.\n\n162,000\n\n200,014.61\n\n99,935.41\n\n38,014.61\n\n40,000.00\n\n48,000.00\n\nDo.\n\nNot begun\n\nSite abandoned.\n\nUnder-estimated.\n\nDo.\n\nCheung Chiu School\n\n1,000\n\n1,000.00\n\nCu Long School\n\n1,000\n\n1,000.00\n\nGardeners' Quarters, Sheung Shui\n\n10,000\n\n10,000.00\n\nTaipo School......\n\n20,000\n\n20,000.00\n\nMagnetic Huts\n\n14,000\n\n14,000.0\n\nNot begun.\n\nOpen Market, Kowloon City\n\n15,000\n\n15,000.00\n\nSanitary Inspector's Quarters, Kowloon City\n\n25,000\n\n25,000.00\n\nPublic Latrines, Urinals and Bath-houses\n\n25,000\n\n8,480.02\n\n21,569.88\n\nKept down to the minimum.\n\nCommunications.\n\nRoads :-\n\n(a) Metalling and tar painting hilly portion of Lai Chi Kok-Castle Peak and Taipo Roads......\n\n30,000\n\n16,876.74\n\n(b.) Taipo Market, kerbing and channelling, &c.\n\n5,000\n\n289.63\n\n19,129.26\n\n4,710.37\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\n(c.) Taipo Road,-Widening and improving from 5th milestone to Shatin....\n\n10,000\n\n(d.) Widening eleven bridges\n\n20,000\n\n10,650.80\n\n24,102.58\n\n650.80\n\n4,102.58\n\n1,300.00\n\n4,500.00\n\nMore work done than anticipated.\n\n(e) Surfacing and strengthening those portions of main road running through paddy\n\n20,000\n\n16,197.15\n\n(f) Extension of Roads in Kowloon Tong Development Area....\n\n(g.) Waterloo Road extension (190 feet wide) section between Kowloon Boundary to foot of hills S.E. of tunnel (estimate for 150 foot width).\n\n(h.) Fanling to Sha-tau-kok Road ................\n\n(i) Path from Ta Ku Ling to Liu Ma\n\n45,000\n\n8,828.81\n\n8,802.8%\n\n98,171.19\n\nLess work done than anticipated.\n\nDo.\n\n5,000\n\n75,000\n\n5,647.50\n\n73,879.00\n\n647.50\n\n1,121.(*) \n\nHigh for patrol purposes\n\n15,000\n\n(j) Road to Shun Wan\n\n10,000\n\n(k.) Taipo Market to Kam Shan.\n\n5,000\n\n4,567.23\n\n15,000.00\n\n10,000.00\n\n482.77\n\n*\n\nDo.\n\n2,000.00\n\n(l) Widening two bridges at Au Tau and Kum Tsin\n\n40,000\n\n10,430.94\n\n(m.) Macadamizing Taipo Road between 5th and 9th Mile\n\n(n.) Macadamizing road from Fanling to Sheung Shui Train Halt.........\n\n(o.) General Works\n\n25,000\n\n30,000\n\n23,387.74\n\n16,857.87\n\n59,679.00\n\n29,079.00\n\nCarried forward\n\nCarried forward.........\n\n7,560,200\n\n6,236,679.76\n\n1,560,774.54\n\n2,884,294.76\n\n16,648,525\n\n16,329,865.91\n\n1,277,780.20\n\n1,501,489.29\n\n23,589.00\n\n1,612.28\n\n8,142.19\n\n48,500.00\n\n1,886,188.00\n\n4,500.00\n\n40,000.00!\n\nSlow progress due to Railway question on Construction site.\n\nNot begun.\n\nWork cheaper than was anticipated.\n\nKept down to the minimum.\n\nNecessary to keep pace with the expansion of the Colony.\n\n123\n\n1231", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506902, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "content_text": "- 3 -\n\nof a section of the local inhabitants, occurred on the afternoon of the 10th inst., when someone in a crowd watching a unicorn performance near the boundary path at Shatautok threw a stone which struck P.S. Fender in the back.\n\n13th February, 1927.\n\n**(Sd) W. G. GERRARD**\nAssistant Superintendent of Police\nNew Territories.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE NO. 3a \n102 \n**Hon. Capt. Supt. of Police, FRONTIER INCIDENTS.** \n\nThe situation in general at Shataukok is becoming more unsettled, and there appears to be increasing apprehension in the minds of those Chinese who are resident immediately on the border within British territory, due to increased activity on the part of the \"Lung Man\" and the dissemination by them of anti-British posters and propaganda. \n\nThe attitude of the \"Lung Man\" towards the police is one of scarcely veiled hostility, and this, coupled with the results of anti-British propaganda, has affected the morale of the Chinese detectives at Shataukok to such a degree that they are unwilling to visit Shataukok or make enquiries there. \n\nEvery day finds a fresh batch of anti-British placards in British Shataukok, and these are no sooner removed by police than fresh ones are posted. \n\nYesterday, being some sort of \"Remembrance Day\" in honour of certain \"heroes\" disposed of by Wu Pei Fu, occasion was taken to hold an investiture of the \"Lung Min\" Corps recently formed at Shataukok. Part of the proceedings consisted of a procession of the \"Lung Man\" headed by Ong Chun We, which paraded through Chinese Shataukok and along the boundary path. These happenings apparently had a disturbing effect on those Chinese who live on the British side of the path, as most of them kept their doors closed the whole day. The District Officer, North, who yesterday visited Shataukok, is forwarding a special report to the Honourable Colonial Secretary. \n\nEnclosed with this report are copies of posters found by police yesterday and this morning in British Shataukok.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507124, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927", "content_text": "- 2 - \n## 136\n\nvisited by P.S. Fender, who found two armed \"Lung Man\" posted on the boundary path in British territory. Upon his requesting them to remove themselves, one of them complied, but the other refused to budge and remained where he was until the military picket came in sight, when he and several others who had made their appearance cleared off to their tower.\n\n5. A reward of $800 has been offered by the Committee in control of the \"Lung Man\" at Shataukok for the capture of Lau Chun Ying. The latter, it will be remembered, escaped from Im Tin when that place was raided by the \"Lung Man\" on the 10th instant.\n\n6. Tang Ching, a follower of Lo Kwan, arrested by the \"Po On Tui\" at Sha Sa, Mirs Bay, has been taken to Tam Shui, his native place, and there shot.\n\n20th March, 1927.\n\n**sd.** **W.G. GERRARD**\nAssistant Superintendent of Police,\n**(New Territories.)**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 9.\n\n38\n\n**Honourable Captain Superintendent of Police,**\n\n## FRONTIER INCIDENTS\n\nOn the 14th instant a detachment of the King's Own Scottish Borderers consisting of Lieutenant Reid and 33 other ranks arrived at Shataukok Police Station where they are at present encamped near the parade ground. Daily, during the past week, a patrol of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, consisting of 1 N.C.O. and 6 men has patrolled at uncertain hours the boundary path separating British 沙頭角 from Chinese Shataukok.\n\nAlthough the general effect of these military patrols has been excellent, and has been the means of stopping the \"Lung Man\" from placarding the houses in British Territory with anti-British posters, there is a likelihood of further trouble from the \"Lung Man\" egged on by their leader, Wong Chun Wa 黄振華.\n\n20th February, 1927.\n\nsd. W.G. Gerrard.\n**Assistant Superintendent of Police, (New Territories.)**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507186, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "content_text": "## FRONTIER INCIDENTS\n\nHonourable Captain Superintendent of Police,\n\n1. Quietness prevails on the Sham Chun frontier.\n\n39 In the past week the work of anti-British propagandists in Sham Chun Market has been much less intense, and fewer anti-British posters are being displayed. But there is talk of a fresh anti-British campaign being instituted.\n\n2. At Shataukok, owing to the truculent attitude of the \"Lung Man\", and their persistence in picketing the boundary path during the absence of our military patrol, and this, too, in spite of repeated warnings, it has been found necessary to have a military guard constantly on the path during the hours of daylight.\n\n27th February, 1927.\n\nsd. J.G. Gerrard,\nAssistant Superintendent of Police,\n(New Territories)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507203, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "content_text": "## 2. SHATAUKOK 沙头角\n\n(1) The \"Lung Man\" have been quiescent of late, but yesterday they again asserted themselves. About 18.30 hours, 6 armed \"Lung Man\" in charge of an English-speaking individual 黃振 (not Wong Chun Wa, it would seem), came up from the foreshore to the junction of the main road and boundary path, along which latter they essayed to proceed. They were held up, however, by the military picket, whereupon the English-speaking person demanded to know on whose authority they were prevented from using the path to which they claimed the same right as the soldiers. However, the \"Lung Man\" did not attempt to force the issue, but went away, the leader saying: \"We will come and patrol the path to-morrow\".\n\n## 3. MIRS BAY\n\n(1) On the 1st inst., a letter from Pang Ching Hin, Head of the Branch Customs Office at Tai Pang, was delivered to a compradore of the s/s \"Tai Pang\", by a soldier at Tip Fuk. A copy and translation of this letter (A) is attached. On the 3rd inst., a second letter was similarly delivered to the compradore. A copy and translation of this letter (B) is also attached. Both letters speak for themselves, and you already know the main facts concerning them and what action has been taken. But it is probable that no further demands will be made, as the compradore has seen Pang Ching Hin (the latter travelled by the \"Tai Pang\" en route for Hong Kong on the 6th inst.), and explained to him the position which he said he misunderstood. I should have liked to have seen Pang, but the fact that he was a passenger by the \"Tai Pang\" was not conveyed to the police until too late.\n\n(2)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507448, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927", "content_text": "# Enclosure No.2\n\n**Hon. Capt. Supt. of Police, 沙头角 Frontier Incidents. Shataukok and Mirs Bey.**\n\n農民 16\n\nExcept for an incident connected with the \"Lung Man\" at Shataukok there is nothing to report. The incident referred to occurred on the 18th inst. in that date, about 11.30 hrs. 12 of the \"Lung Man\", one armed with a revolver and the rest with rifles, attempted to pass down the boundary path towards the railway terminus, but were prevented by our picquet. A few tense minutes followed. The \"Lung Man\" loaded their rifles as did the picquet which also fixed bayonets. Then the \"Lung Man\" who had the revolver, and who was evidently the person in charge, made an attempt to pass the picquet, but was stopped by the Non-Commissioned Officer bringing his rifle to the \"aim\". Matters looked serious, but at this moment the Head of the \"Lung Ken\", 黄振華 Wong Chun Wa, appeared on the scene. He appeared to be very angry and asked the Indian Interpreter why his men had been stopped from going down the path. Upon the Indian Interpreter explaining his orders, Wong Chun Wa repeated his old arguments about the path being half Chinese and half British, and that his men had the same right to patrol it as had the 沙头角 picquet. He demanded to see the Officer-in-Charge, Shataukok. Acting Sub-Inspector Fender was informed and went and saw Wong Chun Wa who, after some more argument, said he did not wish to create any trouble and promised to warn his men against attempting to patrol the path. At the end of the interview Wong Chun Wa became quite affable and asked Acting Sub-Inspector Fender to see the Assistant Superintendent of Police (New Territories) about getting him a permit enabling him to travel direct through British territory between Shataukok and Sham Chun. On being informed of this I instructed Acting Sub-Insp. Fender to tell Wong Chun Wa, that as in ordinary circumstances there were no restrictions on Chinese entering or travelling through our territory a permit, such as asked for, was unnecessary.\n\n**(Sd). W. G. Gerrard, Asst. Supt. of Police (N.T.)** \n21.8.27.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511916, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927", "content_text": "28\n\n24\n\nThe main sewer from Fuk Tsun Heung to Kowloon Tong, east of the Railway, was completed. It varies in size from 6\" to 33\" and is 8,500 feet in length.\n\nOther sewers and storm water drains were constructed to the extent of 7,000 feet.\n\nNew Kowloon. The drainage of the Kowloon Tong Development Area was proceeded with, sewers and storm water drains being constructed to the extent of 6,500 feet and 3,000 feet respectively.\n\nOther sewers and storm water drains were laid to the extent of 2,900 feet.\n\nThe extension of the Mong Kok Tsui Nullah from the Old Kowloon Boundary to the Kowloon range of hills progressed slowly.\n\nNew Territories - Various works were carried out, largely of an anti-malarial nature.\n\nWATER WORKS.\n\nHong Kong. - The eastern half of the Service Reservoir at the Eastern Filter Beds was completed, with the exception of the roof, and was put into use, while the invert and walls of the western section were approaching completion.\n\nThe new Simpson Engine at Tytam Tuk Pumping Station was completed and placed in commission after satisfactory tests had been run.\n\nStanley Mound East Catchwater was satisfactorily completed.\n\nTotals of 950 lin. ft. of 18\" diameter, 2,500 lin. ft. of 15\" diameter and 300 lin. ft. of 6\" diameter C.I. pipes were laid in Monmouth Path, Queen's Road Central and D'Aguilar Street respectively during the year.\n\nA Contract for the Chemical House and Concrete Filter Beds at Bowen Road was let and good progress had been made by the end of the year.\n\nNew mechanical sand washers were received during the year and a considerable saving has been affected in sand washing costs.\n\nKowloon. Improvements and renewals to the distributing system were continued.\n\nThe four new filter beds at Lai Chi Kok Pass were completed and placed in commission.\n\nThe extension to Beacon Hill Catchwater was completed.\n\nShing Mun Valley Scheme. - The Access Road from Tsun Wan to Pineapple Pass was completed.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515514, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "content_text": "Sub-head 73. Children's Playground at Tsim Sha Tsui $30,000.-To lay out as a children's playground an area at the junction of Chatham and Salisbury Roads. This is a very desirable work and has been asked for by the Kowloon Residents Association.\n\n74. Temporary Latrine at Police Training School $1,500.-Considered essential by the Hon. C.S.P. in view of the numbers of occupants of the premises.\n\n75. Public Latrine and Bath House, Argyle Street, Mong Kok, $12,000.—To provide public latrine and bathing accommodation in this rapidly growing district. This is considered very desirable by the Sanitary Department.\n\nGENERAL WORKS.\n\n76. Roads $80,000.-The vote has been increased to provide for works such as macadam kerbs and channels for roads and paving footpaths which are essential in order to keep pace with the laying out of new areas.\n\n77. Drainage (a) Training Nullahs $1,000-To provide for areas in course of development, drains & trenches.\n\n78. (b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works $75,000—To provide for areas in course of development. It has been necessary to increase this vote in view of the fact that development is now making more rapid progress. Stormwater drains and sewers extension.\n\n79. Miscellaneous $10,000. To provide for miscellaneous works such as small latrines, temporary maracts, alterations to buildings leased by Government, electrical fittings not otherwise provided for the fixing of posts to mark boundaries and the filling in of holes (breeding mosquitoes) on undeveloped lots, and many small items asked for by various Departments from time to time.\n\n80. Water Works $8,000.-To provide for areas in course of development. In view of the progress being made in certain areas of this district it becomes essential that last year's vote should be increased to provide additional street fountains and Pedestal Hydrants etc.\n\n81. Port Works $2,000.-To provide for such small works as soundings and borings for foundations connected with Port Development as may be found to be essential.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\n82. Waterloo Road Extension to Boundary 100 feet wide $10,000.—This will enable the road to be opened to traffic, proper foundations being laid for heavy and fast moving vehicles over a width of 40 feet.\n\n83. To Kwa Wan Road and Site Formation $12,000.-Further construction of To Kwa Wan Road and to form sites for exchanges of land by filling in low lying (malarial) areas near San Shan. This work is in hand and should be pressed to a finish. It was hoped to complete this in 1928 but this has proved to be impossible. It is anticipated that it will be completed in 1929.\n\n84. Argyle Street Extension to Waterloo Road 60 ft. wide $22,000.—This vote provides for the extension of Argyle Street from a point east of the Railway to the junction with Waterloo Road. The work is in progress, and it was hoped that it would be finished in 1928 but this has proved to be impossible. It is anticipated that the work will be completed in 1929.\n\nSub-head 85. Improving existing main roads for motor traffic :-Portion of Salisbury and Nathan Roads $50,000. This vote is intended to provide the necessary strengthening of these important roads to meet the requirements of heavy and fast moving traffic.\n\n86. Chatham Road Extension $50,000.-This vote is necessary in order to press on with the construction of this very desirable main arterial thoroughfare.\n\n87. Forming road in Boundary Street by covering of nullah west of No. 8 Railway Bridge $15,000. To provide satisfactory access to this rapidly developing area. This is a very essential work.\n\nDRAINAGE.\n\n88. Extension at Tong Mi of South west drain from old Tai Po Road to Kowloon Tong Village area $15,000.—This is essential with a view to the prevention of malaria. It has long been asked for by the Sanitary Department.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n89 Chinese Cemeteries Laying out new areas $10,000.-This is in the nature of a recurrent vote. As the population increases it is necessary to break new ground for interments (although every effort is made to economize ground by periodic exhumations).\n\n90. Renewing electrical wiring to Government Buildings $4,200.-In many cases the original wiring has perished and re-wiring has become necessary, not only for economy, but for safety.\n\n91. Upkeep of Government sites $5,000.-In many cases where lots are left partly formed by undertaking protection works the Public Works Department not only saves the site but prevents silt being washed down into nullahs.\n\n92. Filling in and draining land West of Yaumati Railway Station and North of Argyle Street $2,000.-This is very desirable with a view to the prevention of malaria and will provide valuable building sites.\n\n93. Laying a telephone cable between Kowloon Railway Station and the Test Hut beyond Chatham Road Railway Bridge $8,000.-This is necessary to meet the requirements of normal expansion of telephones to Government buildings and particularly for fire and police communications.\n\nWATER WORKS.\n\n94. Distributing Water Mains $15,000. This work is necessary on account of the new water mains required due to the expansion of the Kowloon District. The vote is increased by fifty per cent in order to keep pace with development.\n\nPORT WORKS.\n\n95. Police Pier Kowloon $1,000.---This vote provides for payment of retention money. The work will be completed in 1928.\n\n96. Ferry Piers at Mong Kok Tsui, Sham Shui Po, etc, $150,000. The present piers have been found to be unsuitable for the traffic which they have to carry and it is considered essential that new piers should be constructed. It is estimated that $150,000 will be expended on these two piers during 1929.\n\nPage 49\n\n \n\nPage 49 \n\nPage 49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515515, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "content_text": "Sub-head 97. Public Health and Buildings Ordinance: Compensation and Resumptions $100,000.-This vote is required for the acquisition of buildings and land which impede the Town Planning lay-out scheme for Kowloon and which prevent the re-alignment and widening of streets. The Vote for 1928 proved to be quite inadequate.\n\nNEW KOWLOON BUILDINGS.\n\nSub-head 98. Sham Shui Po Market Extension $3,000.-This vote provides only for payment of retention money. The work will be completed in 1928.\n\nSub-head 99. Sai Yu Shek Cemetery: Quarters for Sextons: $500.—This vote provides only for payment of retention money. The work will be completed in 1928.\n\nSub-head 100. Latrine and Bath House. Boundary Street, Shamshuipo $5,000-This vote provides only for payment of retention money. The work will be completed in 1928.\n\nSub-head 101. Kowloon City Market Extension $15,000.-To extend market accommodation at Kowloon City which is at present inadequate. This work is asked for by the Sanitary Department.\n\nSub-head 102. Temporary Market at Kowloon Tong $1,500.-Considered essential by the Sanitary Department to meet the requirements of the Kowloon Tong development.\n\nSub-head 103. Latrine at Kowloon City $20,000.-Essential to serve a populous and rapidly developing district.\n\nSub-head 104. Married Quarters at Lai Chi Kok Prison $67,000.-These are considered very desirable by the Superintendent of Prisons.\n\nGENERAL WORKS.\n\nSub-head 105. Roads $50,000.-To provide for areas in course of development. Roads are macadamized, kerbed and channelled and footpaths laid as new buildings are erected during the year.\n\nSub-head 106. Drainage:(a) Training nullahs $10,000. To provide for cutting trenches to prevent breeding pools for mosquitos and permanent nullah channels through swamps as development proceeds.\n\nSub-head 107. (b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works $30,000. This vote is required to provide for drainage works of a small nature, connections to sewers and to stormwater drains and to provide generally for the drainage of the areas in New Kowloon which are being rapidly developed for building purposes.\n\nSub-head 108. Miscellaneous $10,000.-To provide for miscellaneous works such as small latrines, temporary markets, small stores, alterations to buildings leased by Government, electrical fittings not otherwise provided for and many small items asked for by various Departments from time to time which are necessary but for which no specific provision has been made.\n\nSub-head 109. Water Works $4,000.-To provide for areas in course of development, repairs to catchwaters and paths across catchment areas, etc.\n\nSub-head 110. Port Works $1,000.—To provide for small works and to cover cost of investigations involving soundings and borings for proposed works.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\nSub-head 111. Waterloo Road Extension to foothills $8,000.--To complete a further section of this road to meet the needs of increased traffic.\n\nSub-head 112. Extension of Roads-Kowloon Tong Development-area at Kowloon Tsai $20,000.-This is necessary for the construction of certain roads which Government has undertaken to form on this Estate.\n\nSub-head 113. Widening of Nathan Road northward to Nan Cheong Street $20,000.- This is required to extend Nathan Road and to meet the needs of ever increasing traffic, portions of present road are only 30 feet wide at present.\n\nSub-head 114. Access Road to Christian Chinese Cemetery Kowloon City $9,700.-This is necessary in order to provide access to the Cemetery as promised by Government, and to enable this Cemetery to be more readily used.\n\nSub-head 115. Improving existing main roads for motor traffic from Prince Edward and Argyle Streets Extension $20,000. This is necessary to provide a proper foundation to this very important thoroughfare in order to make it capable of carrying heavy and fast moving traffic.\n\nDRAINAGE.\n\nSub-head 116. Kowloon Tong Development Area-connection of stream north of hill to main nullah $21,000.-It is anticipated that this will complete the work of training the streams to the north of the site.\n\nSub-head 117. Kowloon Tong Development: Central connecting Stream, East side of Estate to Main Nullah $16,000.-To prevent silting and to protect areas which have recently been filled in.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nSub-head 118. Surfacing Roads and Scavenging Lanes at Kowloon Tong $30,000. This is necessary for the surfacing of roads and scavenging lanes which has to be undertaken by Government.\n\nSub-head 119. Refuse Dump at Cheung Sha Wan $5,000.-This provides for the covering over of refuse dumped on the foreshore at Cheung Sha Wan and is essential from the sanitary point of view.\n\nSub-head 120. Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas $6,000.-This is in the nature of a recurrent vote. Owing to the increase in population it is necessary to open up new areas for burials. Every effort is made to economize space but new land has to be laid out as occasion requires.\n\nSub-head 121. Kowloon Tong Development Scheme: Excavation and Filling $4,000.— It is estimated that this will complete the formation of this Estate which Government has undertaken.\n\nSub-head 122. Filling in areas at Tong Mi and Kowloon Tong $35,000.-This is required to fill in certain low lying areas which is essential for the proper drainage of this area.\n\nSub-head 123. Pier at Lai Chi Kok $4,000.-This is required to provide a permanent pier in place of the existing temporary structure which is continually in need of repair.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515604, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "content_text": "168\n\n84\n\n# Head 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\n## Estimate.\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS\n\n \n Expenditure Approved\n Revised\n Estimated up to 31st\n Estimated\n \n \n \n Estimated\n December,\n Expenditure,\n \n \n \n 1927.\n 1928.\n 1928.\n \n \n €\n \n \n \n \n \n Brought forward\n \n \n 2,000,705\n \n \n ## COMMUNICATIONS.\n \n \n 82 Waterloo Road Extension to Boundary, 100 ft. wide\n 73,000\n 46,866\n 35,000\n 15,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10,000\n \n \n 83 Tokwawan Road and Site formation\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 84 Argyle Street Extension to Waterloo Road (60′ wide)\n 373,000\n 327,577\n 33,000\n 33,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12,000\n \n \n \n 60,500\n 27,151\n 15,000\n 10,000\n \n \n \n 22,000\n \n \n \n \n \n Improving existing main roads for motor traffic:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85 Portion of Salisbury and Nathan Road\n 260,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 86 Chatham Road, Extension\n 244,000\n 78,179\n \n \n \n \n 87 Boundary Street, Forming road by covering nullah west of No. 8 Railway Bridge\n 15,000\n \n \n \n \n \n ## DRAINAGE.\n \n \n 88 Training Nullah:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n ::\n \n \n \n \n \n \n : Tong Mi--Extension of Storm Water Drain from old Taipo Road to Kowloon Tong Village area (on account)\n 50,000\n 50,000\n 15,000\n 15,000\n \n \n ## MISCELLANEOUS.\n \n \n 89 Chinese Cemeteries, Laying out new areas\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90 Kowloon, Renewing electrical wiring to Government Buildings\n \n \n \n 2,000\n \n \n 91 Upkeep of Government undeveloped sites\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 92 Filling in and draining land west of Yaumati Railway Station and North of Argyle Street\n \n \n 8,000\n \n \n \n 93 Laying telephone cable between Kowloon Railway Station and the test hut beyond Chatham Road Railway Bridge\n \n \n 10,000\n \n \n \n ## WATER WORKS.\n \n \n 94 Distributing Water mains\n \n \n \n 15,000\n \n \n 95\n \n \n \n 10,000\n \n \n ## PORT WORKS.\n \n \n Kowloon-Police Pier\n \n \n \n 9,000\n \n \n 96 Mong Kok Tsui and Shamshuipo, Western Ferry Piers (on account)\n 1,000 (1)\n 150,000\n 108,865\n 50,000\n \n \n ## PUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.\n \n \n 97 Compensation and Resumptions\n \n \n \n ...\n \n \n ## NEW KOWLOON.\n \n \n ### BUILDINGS.\n \n \n 98 Shamshuipo Market Extension (20 Stalls)\n 28,000\n 20,000\n 15,885\n 16,000\n \n \n \n 10,000\n \n \n 4,200\n \n \n ....\n 5,000\n \n \n :\n \n \n :\n 2,000\n \n 8,000\n \n \n \n \n 10,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 99 Sai Yu Shek Cemetery Quarters for 2 Sextons\n 4,500\n \n \n \n \n \n :\n :\n \n \n \n \n \n 100 Boundary Street, Shamshuipo—Latrine and Bath-house\n 35,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 101 Kowloon City Market Extension\n \n \n \n 100,000\n \n \n 102 Kowloon Tong Market (Temporary) (4 stalls)\n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n \n 103 Latrine at Kowloon City:-North of New Police Station\n \n 20,000\n 67,000\n \n \n \n 104 Married Quarters-Lai Chi Kok Prison..\n 25,000\n \n 25,000\n \n \n \n \n 3,000 (1)\n \n 4,500\n \n \n \n \n 4,000\n \n 500 (1)\n \n \n \n \n 30,000\n \n 30,000\n \n \n \n \n 5,000 (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15,000\n \n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n 20,000\n \n 67,000\n \n \n \n Carried forward\n \n \n 2,581,905\n \n \n (1) Retention Money to be completed in 1928.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517189, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## THREE\n\n### RAIN-MAKING EXPERIMENTS\nOn the 18th June, by kind permission of the Commodore, rain-making experiments were undertaken by the Royal Air Force. Seven flights were made from the Kai Tak Aerodrome by planes, each carrying 1 cwt. of powdered kaolin, which was dispersed into clouds considered to be so located as to produce the best results over the catchment areas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Reservoirs. Unfortunately, no appreciable results were obtained.\n\n### WELLS AND NULLAHS\nSupplies from wells and nullahs are being made available in consultation with the Hon. Director of Medical and Sanitary Services. Particulars of wells opened have already been published. The following is a list of the nullahs from which supplies have been made available to the public:\n\n| Nullah Location |\n| --- |\n| Star Street |\n| Victoria Nullah at Queen's Road East |\n| Albany Nullah-Boundary Path, Lower Tram Station |\n| Wyndham Street/Wellington Street (from Glenealy Nullah) |\n| No. 12 Bridge Nullah Shaukiwan, Main Nullah |\n| No. 12 Bridge Nullah Shaukiwan, West Branch |\n| P.W.D. Annexe (from Albany Nullah) |\n| Tai Hang Village |\n| Cadogan Street |\n| Beach Street |\n| Storm Water Drain springs, Recreation Ground, Happy Valley |\n| Albany Nullah at Queen's Road East |\n| Albany Nullah at Kennedy Road |\n| Albany Nullah at MacDonnell Road |\n| Duddell Street |\n| Seth's Corner, Whitfield |\n| Matheson Street |\n| Yee Woo Street |\n| Pennington Street |\n| Pokfulam Road/Shektongtsui Nullah |\n| Hing Hon Road |\n| Bonham Road/Western Street |\n\nAt all wells and nullahs, notices in English and Chinese have been posted warning the public that the water must be boiled if used for potable purposes.\n\n### PERMANENT MEASURES\nMeasures taken to prevent recurrence of water shortage.\n\nThe following permanent measures are being taken to increase the supply:\n\n1. The Aberdeen Valley Scheme, estimated to maintain a daily supply of 2.12 million gallons during the driest known period. It is hoped to call for tenders within 2 months for the construction of the dam and a short length of catchwater. The necessary pipes and pumps have been ordered from home, and water from this source should be available by the Spring of 1931.\n\n2. The cross-harbour pipe line, which has now received the approval of the Consulting Engineers, is likely to be available in time for the spring rains of 1930 and will be capable of delivering up to 4 million gallons a day to the island.\n\n3. The Dragon's Back and Mt. Pottinger Catchwaters have been investigated, and preliminary drawings prepared. The minimum yield from the areas intercepted by these Catchwaters is estimated at 1 1/2 million gallons a day. Construction work can be commenced next year if sufficient staff is available.\n\n4. The Contract for the construction of the Byewash Dam has been signed, and notice to commence the work given. It should be possible to impound a certain amount of water in the reservoir in about 14 months' time. The total storage will be 175 million gallons approximately.\n\n5. The Sheklipui Service Reservoir, now under construction, will add 10 million gallons to storage. It will be finished within a year.\n\n6. Investigation of the further sections of the Shing Mun Valley Scheme is proceeding. The Gorge Dam at Pineapple Pass appears to be feasible, and preliminary investigations at Gin Drinkers' Bay, where there is a very large basin capable of impounding fully 2,000 million gallons, have turned out well. Considerable preliminary work is, however, necessary before works of this magnitude can be commenced.\n\nThese and other possible sources of supply have been dealt with fully in `Sessional Paper No. 4 of 1928`.\n\nPage 40", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526623, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "## \n23. Joseph Brennan sworn. \"I am the Inspector of Police, i/c Northern Division, N.T., with headquarters at Taipo. I live at Au Tau Police Station. I was in my quarters at Au Tau about 5.45 p.m. on July 21st last when the officer in Charge (Au Tau) made a report to me as the result of a telephone message he had received from Taipo. On my instructions Sergt. Basting paraded all his men under arms, I picked out one I.P.8. and three I.P.Cs. We were just about to start when I was recalled to the Charge Room where I found the A.S.P., N.T. (Mr. Sparrow) and Sergt. Madgwick. A Verey pistol, torches and first aid appliances were then got ready. A considerable amount of telephoning had to be done. We finally started for Lok Ma Chau, a party of 8, in motor vehicles, about 6.30 p.m., and reached the bottom of Lok Ma Chau Station path about 6.45 p.m.\" \n\nsd. J. Brennan\n\nsd. R. E. Lindsell \nF.M.\n\nEnquiry further adjourned to 2.15 p.m. on 3rd September.\n\n3.9. \nsd. R. E. Lindsell \nP.M.\n\nFurther adjourned to 2.15 p.m. on 5th September.\n\nP.45 \n\n5.9. Enquiry continued. \nsd. R. E. Lindsell \nF.M.\n\nJury present.\n\n23rd witness, I.P. Brennan, recalled, continues: \n\"I produce the record card of I.P.C. 3543. On reaching the bottom of Lok Ma Chau Station path, I met S.I. O'Connor and Sergt. Molven and learnt news of the Lewis gun. I was detailed to take a Thompson gun round to the N. side of the Station. I then mounted the low hill to the west of the path. From the top I turned my glasses on the station. I could see no movement. The A.S.P., N.T., joined me. Some men were posted there and I returned to the boundary road. I then went to the valley to the S. of the Station between the path and the married...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "102\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\n58\n\nHeads and Sub-heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n36. PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT.\n\nItems.\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n1:-BUILDINGS\n\n1 Maintenance of Buildings\n\n2 Improvements to Buildings\n\n \n Estimated.\n Actual.\n Increase\n Decrease.\n \n \n $\n $\n $\n \n \n \n 30,286,316\n 27,181,803.38\n \n 687,664.83\n \n \n 8,792,177.50\n \n \n \n \n \n 150,000\n 15,000\n 192,184.63\n 19,686.35\n \n \n \n \n 42,184.63\n 4,686.85\n \n\n10.3\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1932\n\n59\n\nProvisionally Voted.\n\nExplanatory Remarks\n\n \n 50,000.00\n 6,000.00\n More maintenance work.\n \n \n \n \n Many small improvements undertaken.\n \n \n 2: --COMMUNICATIONS.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in City\n 80,000\n 87,652.91\n 7,652.91\n \n \n \n 10,000.00\n \n More maintenance work.\n \n \n 2 Improvements to Roads and Bridges in City\n 20,000\n \n \n \n \n 8 Maintenance of Roads and Bridges outside City\n 80,000\n 19,906.64\n 93,553.05\n \n \n \n 93.36\n 13,553.05\n \n \n \n \n 20,000.00\n \n Path to \"Boa Vista\" commenced late in the year\n \n \n 4 Improvements to Roads and Bridges outside City\n 6,000\n \n \n \n \n 5 Maintenance of Telephones including all Cables\n 11,000\n 5,969.17\n 10,758.06\n \n \n \n 1\n 30.83\n 241.94\n \n \n 3:DRAINAGE.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c..\n \n \n \n \n \n 4:-LIGHTING.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Gas Lighting, City and Suburbs and Hill District\n 20,500\n 18,912.11\n 1,587.89\n \n \n 2 Electric Lighting, City, Hill District, and Shaukiwan\n 116,000\n 117,694.38\n \n \n \n \n 64,000\n 63,978.38\n 1,694.38\n \n \n \n \n \n 3,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n Extension of Lighting included.\n \n \n 3 Extensions of Lighting\n 3,000.00\n \n 21.62\n \n \n 5: TYPHOON & RAINSTORM DAMAGES.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages\n 25,000\n 33,384.39\n 8,884.39\n \n \n \n 12,000.00\n \n More damages.\n \n \n 6:-WATER WORKS.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Maintenance of City and Hill District.\n 250,000\n \n \n \n \n 2 Maintenance of Village Supplies\n 5,000\n \n \n \n \n 3 Water Account, (Meters)\n \n \n \n \n \n 7:-MISCELLANEOUS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 60,000\n 285,206.37\n 6,169.63\n \n \n \n 246,176.85\n \n \n \n \n \n 35,296.37\n 1,169.08\n 186,176.85\n \n \n \n 50,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,000.00\n 187,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Due to increased pumping.\n \n \n \n \n \n Renewal of piping in Aberdeen,\n \n \n \n \n \n Adoption of general meterage system.\n \n \n 1 Maintenance of Praya Wall and Piers..\n 15,000\n 15,239.88\n 239.88\n \n \n \n 8,000.00\n \n Extensive repairs to the roofs of Blake and Queen's Piers.\n \n \n 2 Maintenance of Public Cemetery\n 1,000\n 677.30\n 322.70\n \n \n 3 Maintenance of Chinese Cemeteries\n 4,000\n 3,998.20\n 1.80\n \n \n 4 Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds\n \n \n \n \n \n 5 Dredging Foreshores\n 3,000\n 2,818.84\n 181.16\n \n \n \n 25,000\n 30,589.27\n 5,589.27\n \n \n \n 9,000.00\n \n Under estimated.\n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n 3,000\n 38.51\n 7,480.30\n \n \n \n \n 61.49\n \n \n \n \n 5,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,000\n 2,921.06\n 3,925.83\n \n \n \n \n 4,480.30\n 1,925.83\n \n \n \n \n 5,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,078.94\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,200.00\n \n More boundary stones required.\n \n \n \n \n \n Expenditure less than anticipated,\n \n \n \n \n \n Kennedy Town bathing shed not included in original estimate\n \n \n 960,600\n 1,268,962.11\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n \n \n \n \n \n $ 30,286.816\n 27,181,808.33\n \n \n \n \n \n 312,988.84\n \n \n \n \n \n 687,664.83\n 3,792,177.50\n \n \n \n \n 4,621.73\n \n \n \n \n \n 362,200.00", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532839, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "THE LAM TSUN VALLEY.\n\nH. P. W. HUTSON.\n\nThe Lam Tsun (or Tsuen) valley was certainly a find. And, like so many other discoveries, it was made by chance. Four of us, on a mid-February afternoon, had set out to explore the country north of Tolo harbour. As we ate our sandwiches by the little stone bridge beyond Taipo Market we changed our plans. Ornithology was the prime motive for our walk and the country before us promised to be as productive as the area we had intended to search. If the birds we saw during luncheon were any indication of the valley's contents, its closer examination would be well worth while. Within a few feet of where we sat a Stonechat hunted insects from a bush; there was a Daurian Redstart across the stream and on a pitch behind us a Rufous-backed Shrike, the dusky form whose status the experts have still to settle. Bulbuls chattered from the top of a thicket and a band of Black-faced Babblers clamoured from its depths, one of the party occasionally showing itself as it came aloft for a brief look round. Add to these a Warbler busy amongst the foliage, two Wagtails in the stream bed and a momentary glimpse of a Little Blue Kingfisher as it flashed down the waterway and you have as promising indications of a wealth of bird life as any ornithologist could wish. So the altered programme was proposed and carried. Even the botanist of the party was as pleased with the idea as the rest of us. His roving glance had already discovered two wild roses in bloom by the stream—R. moschata with its many-flowered sprays and R. sinica bearing large single blooms—as well as the magnificent pale blue Thunbergia grandiflora. With these at the start the new line of country opened as well for him as for the bird watchers.\n\nLunch over, we crossed the bridge. Seldom had a path looked more intriguing. Cobbled steps led down to it from the bridge, it crossed a stretch of paddy, met the stream again at the toe of a pine-clad ridge and then disappeared from view. What lay round the bend? We had the afternoon in which to find out. What a grand afternoon it was too—mild, and with a feeling of spring in the air. We had already remarked, on our way out, the delicate greens of the new foliage on the Liquidambar trees near Taipo and the whitish flowers of the Raphiolepis indica shrubs just coming into bloom on the hillsides. Spring was evident in the wild rose blooms and in the gay chatter of the birds. Spring and the path called to us.\n\nOur hopes that the region would prove a rich one were soon justified. We found the Lam Tsun valley a veritable promised land for the field naturalist, so much so that on this first visit we scarcely penetrated it and had to make many subsequent trips before we fully grasped its possibilities. Round the bend, at the toe of the ridge and out of sight from our starting place, the valley revealed itself, stretching away towards Kamtin as a long narrow strip of cultivation flanked on the one side by the northern slopes of Tai-mo-shan and on the other by the Fanling hills. Three streams traversed its length, the main one hugging the northern hills and the other two flowing down the centre and the southern boundary respectively. These three streams met where we had stopped, at the toe of the hill, and at this meeting place grew a mighty camphor tree, an old and evidently a much venerated tree for its trunk was plastered with red papers and its base ringed with joss sticks.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe Lam Tsun Valley\n\n107\n\nThe path took the line of the centre stream, an attractive little waterway bordered with pollarded Water Banians, and led to Hang Ha Po, a tree-surrounded village on a low mound and backed by an extensive grove. Beyond Hang Ha Po and on the same mound which, like the valley, was long and narrow, lay other villages separated by belts of what can best be described as common land, grass-covered and dotted with bushes. At the aged camphor tree the main stream turned almost at right angles. Its easterly flow had been checked by some high ground near Wai Tau village and it was this elevation, topped as it was by a grove of tall trees, that hid so much of the Lam Tsun valley from the Taipo road. This same high ground brought the main stream to the meeting place by the camphor tree whence the united waters flowed to the sea.\n\nOur plan, if indeed a half-formed intention justified the name, had been to make for Hang Ha Po and work up the centre of the valley. But whilst the botanist was pointing out the Sarcanthus teretifolius orchid and the Ficus repens with its large hanging fruits, both of which plants covered the limbs of the old camphor tree, a bird flew overhead making for the grove by Wai Tau. Too far away for identification it seemed a species that should be followed up and so we left the footpath and kept instead by the main stream. We failed, as a matter of fact, to find this particular bird again but the failure did not rankle. It was offset by so many other discoveries. No less than three different Kingfishers were seen almost at the start—the Little Blue Kingfisher, the White-breasted Kingfisher and the Himalayan Pied Kingfisher. The last, being by no means common in the Colony and apparently not on record as a nesting species, was particularly interesting especially as we saw a couple of these birds and had high hopes in consequence of their nesting along the stream. It was looking for likely holes in the banks that drew attention to the water itself and despite our mature ages led to a very pleasant and wet half hour in keen pursuit of the numerous small creatures that dwelt among the stones.\n\nThe combined bag included a six-inch Catfish, several Crayfish, one of them over five inches long, and a Crab, brown in colour like the stones and in imitation of their mossy growths covered with brown hairs. Many small fishes and newts were missed and we realized that a day or more properly equipped with nets would not be wasted at the stream. The botanist who 'fished' with one eye always on the look out for flora showed us in the backwaters colonies of Hydrocotyle asiatica raising their tiny white heads and, floating close to the banks, that most delicate of ferns Azolla caroliniana. Strangely enough the botanical find of the day was made during the fishing. It was the purple-flowered climber Mucuna championi in bloom in a thicket on the bank. Compared with the plentiful white-flowering M. Birdwoodiana this one is a rarity in Hong Kong. We eventually left the stream at a cattle crossing. Two Swallows, the first of the year, hawked about the shallows and there were Mushrooms growing in the short grass alongside.\n\nMay 1932.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543356, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# Definitions\n\n## Terms\n\n'Occupier' means any person in actual occupation of any premises.\n\n'Offensive trade' includes:—\n(a) the trades of blood-boiling, tripe-boiling, soap-boiling, fat-boiling, tallow-melting, resin-boiling, bone-boiling, bone-crushing, bone-burning, bone-storing, rag-picking, rag-storing, manure manufacture, blood-drying, fell-mongery, leather-dressing, tanning, glue-making, size-making, gut-scraping, hair-cleaning, feather-storing, feather-cleaning, and pig-roasting (except the roasting of pigs in any domestic building or restaurant for consumption in such domestic building or restaurant by the inmates or visitors thereof);\n(b) any trade business or manufacture which is declared by the Urban Council by by-law to be an offensive trade;\n(c) any trade, business or manufacture which is carried on in such a way as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of persons engaged in it, or in such a way as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of persons residing in the neighbourhood;\n(d) any other noxious, offensive, noisome or unhealthy trade, business or manufacture whatsoever.\n\n'Owner' includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise and also any person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person; and, where such owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from the Colony or is under disability, the agent of such owner; and if there is no such agent, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance, every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an owner.\n\n'Person' includes a body corporate, a partnership and an association of persons unincorporated.\n\n'Premises' includes any land, building, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered or enclosed, cesspool or foreshore, also any vessel lying within the waters of the Colony.\n\n'Public Building' includes any building not in occupation of the Naval or Military Departments, used for public worship, public instruction, public assembly, or public recreation; and also any building used as an hotel or as a public hall or hospital, or for any other public purpose whatsoever.\n\n## Area Description\n\nPath, thence in a straight line to the north-west corner of Inland Lot 2325, thence in a straight line to the north-west corner of Inland Lot 1593 and thence along Stone Nullah Lane and Kennedy Road, terminating at the junction of Kennedy Road and Queen's Road East. The lateral boundaries to be formed by lines drawn southward from the beginning and termination of the aforesaid dividing line until they meet the southern boundary of the City of Victoria.\n\nIt also includes any such other area or any modification of the said area as the Governor in Council may define and notify in the Gazette.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543477, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# \n## Definitions\n\n2 \n\n(8) **Building owner** means such one of the owners of adjoining land who is desirous of building, or such one of the owners of buildings, storeys, or rooms, separated from one another by a party wall or party structure who does or is desirous of doing a work affecting that party wall or party structure.\n\n(9) **Cement** means Portland Cement.\n\n(10) **Cockloft** includes any floor other than a ground floor, and any platform or landing of a greater breadth than three feet and which has not a clear space of nine feet measured vertically above it.\n\n(11) **Cross Wall** means any wall not exposed to the outer air other than a partition wall, used or constructed to be used for separation of one part of any building from another part of the same building.\n\n(12) **Dangerous building** means a building in such a condition as to cause risk of injury either to the occupiers of such building or to the occupiers of any neighbouring building, or to passengers.\n\n(13) **Domestic building** means any building constructed, used, or adapted to be used, wholly or partly, for human habitation, but does not include any building where caretakers only, not exceeding two in number, pass the night.\n\n(14) **Exceptional building** includes (i) every public building, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, every building intended for special uses, every building made wholly or partly of reinforced concrete, every building made wholly or partly of glass, iron or other material not provided for in this Ordinance, and (ii) every part of every building which is an exceptional building within the meaning of the first part of this paragraph.\n\n(15) **External air** means the air of any space which is vertically open to the sky and unobstructed and which, when measured from and at right angles to the external surface of a wall, or where there is a verandah or balcony when measured from the external surface of such verandah or balcony, has a dimension of not less than thirteen feet throughout the extent of any window opening in such wall, and when measured parallel to the external surface of such wall, verandah or balcony and in a horizontal direction has a dimension of not less than seven feet.\n\n(16) **External Wall** means an outer wall of any part of any building not being a party wall, even though adjoining to a wall of another building but does include any outer wall of a verandah projecting over a street.\n\n(17) **Factory** means any premises or place wherein or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any machinery other than machinery worked entirely by hand is used in aid of any industrial undertaking carried on in such premises or place.\n\n(18) **Floor** includes any horizontal platform forming the base of any storey, and every joist, board, timber, stone, brick, or other substance, connected with and forming part of such platform.\n\n(19) **Hill-side** means the face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.\n\n(20) **Hill District** means any part of the island of Hong Kong above the 700-feet contour, except Chinese villages.\n\n3 \n\n(21) **Kowloon Point District** means that portion of Kowloon bounded on the South by Salisbury Road, on the North by Jordan Road and Gascoigne Road, on the East by Chatham Road and on the West by Nathan Road.\n\n(22) **Latrine** includes \"privy\" but not water closet.\n\n(23) **Main wall** means either an external or a party wall.\n\n(24) **Mid-level District** means that portion of the City of Victoria which is situated on the southern or south-eastern boundary of a dividing line beginning from a point on the Pokfulam Road at No. 1 Bridge and passing along Pokfulam Road, High Street, Bonham Road and Caine Road as far as Ladder Street to Wing Lee Street, thence along Wing Lee Street and Po Wa Street and bisecting Inland Lot 94, thence along the Northern boundary of Inland Lots 100, 1086, 122 and 123, thence along Shelley Street and the northern boundary of Inland Lot 125 to Old Bailey, thence along Chancery Lane, Chancery Lane Steps, Wyndham Street, Lower Albert Road and Ice House Street, thence along Queen's Road Central and Queen's Road East to the Eastern boundary of War Department land, thence along the Western boundary of Inland Lots 47A, 47 and 1211 until this line produced meets Monmouth Path, thence in a straight line to the North West corner of Inland Lot 2325, thence in a straight line to the North West corner of Inland Lot 1593 and thence along Stone Nullah Lane and Kennedy Road, terminating at the junction of Kennedy Road and Queen's Road East. The lateral boundaries to be formed by lines drawn southward from the beginning and termination of the aforesaid dividing line until they meet the Southern boundary of the City of Victoria.\n\nIt also includes any such other area or any modification of the said area as the Governor-in-Council may define and notify in the Gazette.\n\n(25) **New building** includes any building begun after the 26th February, 1903; and any then existing building thereafter or hereafter altered to such an extent as to necessitate the reconstruction of the whole of any two of its main walls or the removal of the roof and the reconstruction of at least one-half of each of any two of its main walls, whether at the same time or by instalments at different times; and any existing building raised to such an extent that its total height exceeds one and a half times the original height of the building. It also includes the conversion into a domestic building of any building not originally constructed for human habitation, and the conversion into more than one domestic building of a building originally constructed as one domestic building only and any existing building altered in such a manner as to form an additional storey, or the conversion into premises for separate occupation by different tenants, of any building originally constructed for one tenancy.\n\n(26) **Occupier** means any person in actual occupation of any premises.\n\n(27) **Owner** includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise and also any person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person: and, where such owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from the Colony or is under disability, the agent ...\n\n387", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543480, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## Walls\n\n10. Every wall shall be constructed of brick, stone or other hard incombustible substance, solid across its entire thickness and shall be properly bonded and substantially put together with good cement or lime mortar to the satisfaction of the Building Authority. Except where specially permitted in this Ordinance, no part of such wall shall be thicker than any part underneath it, and all cross walls and return walls shall be properly bonded into main walls. Sound blue bricks may be used in the walls of the uppermost storey only of a building, or, where such storey exceeds fifteen feet in height, in the uppermost fifteen feet of the walls of such storey: but blue bricks may not, without the approval of the Building Authority, be used in the walls of the other storey or storeys.\n\n11. (1) Every person who erects a new building shall construct every external and every party wall of such building not exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, in accordance with the following rules, and in every case the thickness prescribed shall be the minimum thickness of which such wall may be constructed:—\n| Height | Thickness |\n| --- | --- |\n| Not exceeding 12 feet | 9 inches thick for its whole height |\n| Exceeds 12 feet but not 25 feet | 14 inches thick for its whole height |\n| Exceeds 25 feet but not 40 feet | 18 inches thick in lowermost storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 40 feet but not 55 feet | 22 inches thick in lowermost storey, 18 inches thick in next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 55 feet but not 70 feet | 27 inches thick in lowermost storey, 22 inches thick in next storey, 18 inches thick in next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 70 feet but not 80 feet | 31 inches thick in lowermost storey, 27 inches thick in next storey, 22 inches thick in next storey, 18 inches thick in next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n\nProvided that—\n- in cases where the number of storeys is less than that indicated in the foregoing rules or where the walls are constructed in good cement mortar, the respective thicknesses of the walls shall be determined by the Building Authority;\n- in the case of two-storied buildings and of the uppermost two storeys of buildings containing a greater number of storeys, the walls may be 13 inches thick throughout the height of such storeys, provided such height does not exceed 25 feet;\n- no storey shall exceed in height 15 feet without the permission of the Building Authority, who shall in such case prescribe to what extent, if any, the walls shall be increased in thickness. Such increase of thickness may be provided for by piers, of the required thickness and of such collective length, not exceeding one-fourth part of the length of the walls, as the Building Authority may require.\n\n(2) If any wall exceeds 35 feet but does not exceed 60 feet in length clear of cross walls, the thickness of such wall shall, unless the Building Authority otherwise permits, be increased by adding 4 inches to the thickness specified in sub-section (1).\n\n12. The provisions of section 11 shall also apply to the case of existing buildings, to any wall or portions of walls hereafter erected or re-erected therein: Provided that in any case where from any cause it is not practicable to apply such provisions, the thicknesses shall be determined by the Building Authority.\n\n13. (1) No wall, other than a boundary wall, shall exceed sixty feet in length, clear of any return or cross wall, without the approval of the Building Authority. A wall shall not be deemed a cross wall for the purpose of determining the length of any external or party wall unless it is carried up to the top of the topmost storey, and unless in each storey the aggregate extent of the vertical faces or elevations of all the recesses and that of all the openings therein taken together shall not exceed one-half of the whole extent of the vertical face or elevation of the wall in such storey.\n\n(2) No wall shall exceed eighty feet in height without the approval of the Building Authority. The height of every wall shall be measured from the level of the adjacent foot-path, or where no foot-path exists, from the level of the street or ground outside, to the highest part of such wall or, in the case of a gable, to half the height of such gable, but shall in no case include any portion of a wall which acts as a retaining wall. Ornamental towers, turrets, or other architectural features or decorations, not exceeding nine feet in height and parapets not exceeding three feet in height shall not be included in measuring the height of such wall.\n\n(3) Any external wall of a building exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, shall be secured at the level of each upper floor, and at the ceiling or roof, with wrought-iron tie-rods not less than one and a quarter inches in diameter, spaced not more than twelve feet apart and extending through such external wall and the nearest parallel wall of such building. The tie-rods shall have screwed ends with nuts bearing upon wrought-iron washer plates not less than eighteen inches square by half an inch in thickness, or cast-iron washer plates to be approved by the Building Authority, and the brickwork of each wall for its full thickness and for an area of two feet square round the end of each tie-rod shall be built in cement-mortar: Provided that the Building Authority may modify or dispense with the requirements of this sub-section whenever he may consider such requirements unnecessary.\n\n14. The thickness of every cross wall shall be at least two-thirds of the thickness prescribed by section 11 in that behalf for an external wall or party wall of the same height and length and belonging to the same class of building as that to which such cross wall belongs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543531, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## General Index - Continued\n\n| Party | 75 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n## TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCE\n\n### Remarks\n\n| Party | Ꭲ. S,-Continued. |\n| --- | --- |\n\n| STONES; Removal of | 118 |\n| STOREY; Interpretation of | 4(35) |\n| Height of | 11(proviso 3) |\n| STORM water-channels | 30, 31, 95(6) |\n| STOVES; Floor under | 121-124 |\n| STREET, Interpretation of | 63 |\n| Width of | 57, 90 |\n| Private | 116, Schedule D |\n| STRUCTURES; Inflammable | 4(29) |\n\n### Buildings Ordinance 1932\n\n| TIMBER Stores | 1 |\n| TYPE-plans | 2 |\n| TYPES of Architecture | 4 |\n| TENANCY Contracts | 3 |\n| TENANT, Interpretation of | 5 |\n| TENEMENT, Interpretation of | 4(36) |\n| TIE Rods | 4(1) |\n| | 6(1) |\n| | (2) |\n| | (3) |\n| \"a\" substituted for \"the\" | (4) |\n| \"to an average added. the floor level\" | (5) |\n| \"garage and hoarding\" added. | (6) |\n| | (8) |\n| Deleted. | (7) |\n| | (9) |\n| | (10) |\n| V. | (8) |\n| VENTILATION, of Buildings | (11) |\n| under floors | 70 |\n| VERANDAH, Interpretation of | 33 |\n| Obstruction in | (9) |\n| | (13) |\n| | 4(39) |\n| A definition of \"Cockloft\" substituted for that of \"Mezzanine floor\" which has been deleted. | 58 |\n\n### Regulations\n\n| Schedules A & C | 51-55 |\n| Rules as to | (10) |\n| | (38) |\n\n### W.\n\n| WALLS: Interpretation of | 4(40) |\n| Cross | 4(11) |\n| External | 4(16) |\n| Main | 4(23) |\n| Partition | 4(28) |\n| Party | |\n| Blue bricks | 4(30) |\n| Bonding of | 10 |\n| Boundary or fence | 23 |\n| Cross | (24) |\n| | 19 |\n| Deleted and a definition of \"Mid-level District\" substituted. | 13, 14 |\n| Damp-proof courses for | |\n| External | 16 |\n| Foundations for | 11, 13(8) |\n| Hollow | 17 |\n| Hoop iron courses for | 22 |\n| Lath and plaster | |\n| Limitation of length of | 13 |\n| \"seven\" substituted for \"five\" | |\n| Materials for | |\n| Mortar for | |\n| Partition | 23 |\n| Party | 22 |\n| Re-drafted to exclude \"vertical enclosure\" and \"cross wall or other partition\" which have their own definition. | 99 |\n| Retaining | 18 |\n| Tie-rods for | |\n| | 20, 138-152 |\n| | 6 |\n| | 10 |\n| | 15 |\n\n### T\n\n| WATER-closets | 13(3) |\n| WEEP-Holes | 75-81 |\n| WELLS. | Schedule H. |\n| Required | 120 |\n| WOOD Plates | 18 |\n| WOOD-work near flues | 69, 70, 73 |\n| WOODEN Buildings | 74 |\n| WINDOWS, Interpretation of | 45 |\n| Obstruction to | 46 |\n| Floors | 9, Schedule D |\n| WORKS, Interpretation of | 35 |\n| Notice of intention to commence... | 4(42), 125(9), Schedule F |\n| Deleted | |\n| Redrafted to conform with No. 27 of 1932, s. 2. | (17) |\n| Re-drafted to include hand power machinery. | (27) |\n| | (18) |\n| | (28) |\n| | (19) |\n| | (29) |\n| | (20) |\n| | (31) |\n| | (21) |\n| | (32) |\n| Added | (22) |\n| \"but not water closet\" added | (28) |\n| | (35) |\n| | (85) |\n| | (24) |\n| | (37) |\n| | (38) |\n\n459", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543560, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "## Definitions\n\n'Occupier' means any person in actual occupation of any premises.\n\n'Offensive trade' includes :-\n\n(a) the trades of blood-boiling, tripe-boiling, soap-boiling, fat-boiling, tallow-melting, resin-boiling, bone-boiling, bone-crushing, bone-burning, bone-storing, rag-picking, rag-storing, manure manufacture, blood-drying, fell-mongery, leather-dressing, tanning, glue-making, size-making, gut-scraping, hair-cleaning, feather-storing, feather-cleaning, and pig-roasting (except the roasting of pigs in any domestic building or restaurant for consumption in such domestic building or restaurant by the inmates or visitors thereof);\n\n(b) any trade business or manufacture which is declared by the Urban Council by by-law to be an offensive trade;\n\n(c) any trade, business or manufacture which is carried on in such a way as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of persons engaged in it, or in such a way as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of persons residing in the neighbourhood;\n\n(d) any other noxious, offensive, noisome or unhealthy trade, business or manufacture whatsoever.\n\n'Owner' includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise and also any person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person; and, where such owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from the Colony or is under disability, the agent of such owner; and if there is no such agent, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance, every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an owner.\n\n'Person' includes a body corporate, a partnership and an association of persons unincorporated.\n\n'Premises' includes any land, building, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered or enclosed, cesspool or foreshore, also any vessel lying within the waters of the Colony.\n\n'Public building' includes any building not in occupation of the Naval or Military Departments, used for public worship, public instruction, public assembly, or public recreation; and also any building used as an hotel or as a public hall or hospital, or for any other public purpose whatsoever.\n\n## City of Victoria Boundary Description\n\nPath, thence in a straight line to the north-west corner of Inland Lot 2325, thence in a straight line to the north-west corner of Inland Lot 1593 and thence along Stone Nullah Lane and Kennedy Road, terminating at the junction of Kennedy Road and Queen's Road East. The lateral boundaries to be formed by lines drawn southward from the beginning and termination of the aforesaid dividing line until they meet the southern boundary of the City of Victoria.\n\nIt also includes any such other area or any modification of the said area as the Governor in Council may define and notify in the Gazette.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543681, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "# \n3 \n\n## Building Definitions\n\n(8) **Building owner** means such one of the owners of adjoining land who is desirous of building, or such one of the owners of buildings, storeys, or rooms separated from one another by a party wall or party structure who does or is desirous of doing a work affecting that party wall or party structure.\n\n(9) **Cement** means Portland Cement.\n\n(10) **Cockloft** includes any floor other than a ground floor, and any platform or landing of a greater breadth than three feet and which has not a clear space of nine feet measured vertically above it.\n\n(11) **Cross Wall** means any wall not exposed to the outer air other than a partition wall, used or constructed to be used for separation of one part of any building from another part of the same building.\n\n(12) **Dangerous building** means a building in such a condition as to cause risk of injury either to the occupiers of such building or to the occupiers of any neighbouring building, or to passengers.\n\n(13) **Domestic building** means any building constructed, used, or adapted to be used, wholly or partly, for human habitation, but does not include any building where caretakers only, not exceeding two in number, pass the night.\n\n(14) **Exceptional building** includes (i) every public building, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, every building intended for special uses, every building made wholly or partly of reinforced concrete, every building made wholly or partly of glass, iron or other material not provided for in this Ordinance, and (ii) every part of every building which is an exceptional building within the meaning of the first part of this paragraph.\n\n(15) **External air** means the air of any space which is vertically open to the sky and unobstructed and which, when measured from and at right angles to the external surface of a wall, or where there is a verandah or balcony when measured from the external surface of such verandah or balcony, has a dimension of not less than thirteen feet throughout the extent of any window opening in such wall, and when measured parallel to the external surface of such wall, verandah or balcony and in a horizontal direction has a dimension of not less than seven feet.\n\n(16) **External Wall** means an outer wall of any part of any building not being a party wall, even though adjoining to a wall of another building but does include any outer wall of a verandah projecting over a street.\n\n(17) **Factory** means any premises or place wherein or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any machinery other than machinery worked entirely by hand is used in aid of any industrial undertaking carried on in such premises or place.\n\n(18) **Floor** includes any horizontal platform forming the base of any storey, and every joist, board, timber, stone, brick, or other substance, connected with and forming part of such platform.\n\n(19) **Hill-side** means the face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.\n\n(20) **Hill District** means any part of the island of Hong Kong above the 700-feet contour, except Chinese villages.\n\n(21) **Kowloon Point District** means that portion of Kowloon bounded on the South by Salisbury Road, on the North by Jordan Road and Gascoigne Road, on the East by Chatham Road and on the West by Nathan Road.\n\n(22) **Latrine, Laurine closet**, includes \"privy\" but not water closet.\n\n(23) **Main wall** means either an external or a party wall.\n\n(24) **Mid-level District** means that portion of the City of Victoria which is situated on the southern or south-eastern boundary of a dividing line beginning from a point on the Pokfulam Road at No. 1 Bridge and passing along Pokfulam Road, High Street, Bonham Road and Caine Road as far as Ladder Street to Wing Lee Street, thence along Wing Lee Street and Po Wa Street and bisecting Inland Lot 94, thence along the Northern boundary of Inland Lots 100, 1086, 122 and 123, thence along Shelley Street and the northern boundary of Inland Lot 125 to Old Bailey, thence along Chancery Lane, Lower Chancery Lane Steps, Wyndham Street, Albert Road and Ice House Street, thence along Queen's Road Central and Queen's Road East to the Eastern boundary of War Department land, thence along the Western boundary of Inland Lots 47A, 47 and 1211 until this line produced meets Monmouth Path, thence in a straight line to the North West corner of Inland Lot 2325, thence in a straight line to the North West corner of Inland Lot 1593 and thence along Stone Nullah Lane and Kennedy Road, terminating at the junction of Kennedy Road and Queen's Road East. The lateral boundaries to be formed by lines drawn southward from the beginning and termination of the aforesaid dividing line until they meet the Southern boundary of the City of Victoria.\n\nIt also includes any such other area or any modification of the said area as the Governor-in-Council may define and notify in the Gazette.\n\n(25) **New building** includes any building begun after the 26th February, 1903; and any then existing building thereafter or hereafter altered to such an extent as to necessitate the reconstruction of the whole of any two of its main walls or the removal of the roof and the reconstruction of at least one-half of each of any two of its main walls, whether at the same time or by instalments at different times; and any existing building raised to such an extent that its total height exceeds one and a half times the original height of the building. It also includes the conversion into a domestic building of any building not originally constructed for human habitation, and the conversion into more than one domestic building of a building originally constructed as one domestic building only and any existing building altered in such a manner as to form an additional storey, or the conversion into premises for separate occupation by different tenants, of any building originally constructed for one tenancy.\n\n(26) **Occupier** means any person in actual occupation of any premises.\n\n(27) **Owner** includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise and also any person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person: and, where such owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from the Colony or is under disability, the agent...\n\nPage 140\nPage 141", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "## Construction of Walls Regulated\n\n### Thickness of External and Party Walls\n\n10. Every wall shall be constructed of brick, stone, or other hard incombustible substance, solid across its entire thickness and shall be properly bonded and substantially put together with good cement or lime mortar to the satisfaction of the **Building Authority**. Except where specially permitted in this Ordinance, no part of such wall shall be thicker than any part underneath it, and all cross walls and return walls shall be properly bonded into main walls. Sound blue bricks may be used in the walls of the uppermost storey only of a building, or where such storey exceeds fifteen feet in height, to the uppermost fifteen feet of the walls of such storey; but blue bricks may not, without the approval of the **Building Authority**, be used in the walls of the other storey or storeys.\n\n11. (1) Every person who erects a new building shall construct every external and every party wall of such building not exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, in accordance with the following rules, and in every case the thickness prescribed shall be the minimum thickness of which such wall may be constructed:\n\n| Wall Height | Thickness |\n| --- | --- |\n| Not exceeding 12 feet | 9 inches thick for its whole height |\n| Exceeds 12 feet but not 25 feet | 18+ inches thick for its whole height |\n| Exceeds 25 feet but not 40 feet | 18 inches thick in the lowermost storey and underneath, 13+ inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 40 feet but not 55 feet | 22 inches thick in the lowermost storey and underneath, 18 inches thick in the next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 55 feet but not 70 feet | 27 inches thick in the lowermost storey and underneath, 22 inches thick in the next storey, 18 inches thick in the next storey, 13+ inches thick in other storeys |\n| Exceeds 70 feet but not 80 feet | 31 inches thick in the lowermost storey and underneath, 27 inches thick in the next storey, 22 inches thick in the next storey, 18 inches thick in the next storey, 13 inches thick in other storeys |\n\nProvided that:\n- in cases where the number of storeys is less than that indicated in the foregoing rules or where the walls are constructed in good cement mortar, the respective thicknesses of the walls shall be determined by the **Building Authority**;\n- in the case of two-storied buildings and of the uppermost two storeys of buildings containing a greater number of storeys, the walls may be 13+ inches thick throughout the height of such two storeys, provided such height does not exceed 25 feet;\n- no storey shall exceed in height 15 feet without the permission of the **Building Authority**, who shall in such case prescribe to what extent, if any, the walls shall be increased in thickness. Such increase of thickness may be provided for by piers, of the required thickness and of such collective length, not exceeding one-fourth part of the length of the walls, as the **Building Authority** may require.\n\n(2) If any wall exceeds 35 feet but does not exceed 60 feet in length clear of cross walls, the thickness of such wall shall, unless the **Building Authority** otherwise permits, be increased by adding 4+ inches to the thickness specified in sub-section (1).\n\n12. The provisions of section 11 shall also apply to the case of existing buildings, to any wall or portions of walls hereafter erected or re-erected therein: Provided that in any case where from any cause it is not practicable to apply such provisions, the thicknesses shall be determined by the **Building Authority**.\n\n13. (1) No wall, other than a boundary wall, shall exceed sixty feet in length, clear of any return or cross wall, without the approval of the **Building Authority**.\n\nA wall shall not be deemed a cross wall for the purpose of determining the length of any external or party wall unless it is carried up to the top of the topmost storey, and unless in each storey the aggregate extent of the vertical faces or elevations of all the recesses and that of all the openings therein taken together shall not exceed one-half of the whole extent of the vertical face or elevation of the wall in such storey.\n\n(2) No wall shall exceed eighty feet in height without the approval of the **Building Authority**. The height of every wall shall be measured from the level of the adjacent foot-path, or where no foot-path exists, from the level of the street or ground outside, to the highest part of such wall or, in the case of a gable, to half the height of such gable, but shall in no case include any portion of a wall which acts as a retaining wall. Ornamental towers, turrets, or other architectural features or decorations, not exceeding nine feet in height and parapets not exceeding three feet in height shall not be included in measuring the height of such wall.\n\n(3) Any external wall of a building exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, shall be secured at the level of each upper floor, and at the ceiling or roof, with wrought-iron tie-rods not less than one and a quarter inches in diameter, spaced not more than twelve feet apart and extending through such external wall and the nearest parallel wall of such building. The tie-rods shall have screwed ends with nuts bearing upon wrought-iron washer plates not less than eighteen inches square by half an inch in thickness, or cast-iron washer plates to be approved by the **Building Authority**, and the brickwork of each wall for its full thickness and for an area of two feet square round the end of each tie-rod shall be built in cement-mortar: Provided that the **Building Authority** may modify or dispense with the requirements of this sub-section whenever he may consider such requirements unnecessary.\n\n14. The thickness of every cross wall shall be at least two-thirds of the thickness prescribed by section 11 in that behalf for an external wall or party wall of the same height and length and belonging to the same class of building as that to which such cross wall belongs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "## General Index,—Continued.\n\n## TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCE\n\n| Remarks | Party | T. | S, Continued. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| STONES; Removal of | | 119 | 4 (35) |\n| STOREY; Interpretation of | | 11 | (proviso 3) |\n| Height of | | 30, 31, 95(6) | |\n| STORM water-channels | | 57 | |\n| STOVES; Floor under | | 90 | |\n| STREET, Interpretation of | | 116 | Schedule D |\n| Width of | | 4 (29) | |\n| Private | | | |\n| STRUCTURES; Inflammable | | | |\n| SECTION | Buildings Ordinance 1932 | Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 | |\n| | 1 | 1 | 2 |\n| | 4 | 121-124 | 3 |\n| | 20 | 5 | 63 |\n| | 4 (36) | 4 (1) | |\n| | 4 (1) | 6 (1) | (2) |\n| | 6 (1) | (2) | (3) |\n| | (2) | (3) | \"a\" substituted for \"the\" |\n| | (3) | (4) | (4) |\n| | (4) | (5) | (5) |\n| TENANCY Contracts | 3 | | |\n| TENANT, Interpretation of | 4 (37) | | |\n| TENEMENT, Interpretation of | 4 (38) | \"to an average added. the floor level\" | |\n| TIE Rods | | (5) | (6) |\n| TIMBER Stores | 13 (3) | 119 | |\n| TYPE-plans | 172 (3) | 106-109 | |\n| TYPES of Architecture | | **garage and hoarding** added. | (6) |\n| | | | (8) |\n| | | | (7) |\n| | | | (9) |\n| | | Deleted. | (10) |\n| V | | | (8) |\n| | | | (11) |\n| VENTILATION, of Buildings | 70 | 33 | |\n| under floors | | (9) | (13) |\n| VERANDAH, Interpretation of | 4 (39) | 58 | |\n| Obstruction in | | A definition of \"Cockloft\" substituted | Schedules A & C |\n| Regulations | | for that of \"Mezzanine floor\" which has been deleted. | 51-55 |\n| Rules as to | | Re-drafted to exclude the walls of a central yard. | |\n| | | (10) | (38) |\n| WALLS: Interpretation of | 4 (40) | | (11) |\n| Cross | 4 (11) | | (17) |\n| External | 4 (16) | | |\n| Main | 4 (23) | | (20) |\n| Partition | 4 (28) | | (14) |\n| Party | 4 (30) | | (16) |\n| | | | (22) |\n| Blue bricks | 10 | | (24) |\n| Bonding of | | 29 | |\n| Boundary or fence | 19 | 13, 14 | |\n| Cross | | Deleted and a definition of \"Mid-level District\" substituted. | |\n| Damp-proof courses for | | | |\n| External | 16 | \"seven\" substituted for \"five\" | 99 |\n| | | (15) | (25) |\n| Foundations for | | 11, 13(3) | (16) |\n| Hollow | 17 | Re-drafted to exclude \"vertical enclosure\" and \"cross wall or other partition\" which have their own definition. | (26) |\n| Lath and plaster | | 22 | |\n| Hoop iron courses for | 1 | 13 | 6 |\n| Limitation of length of | | Redrafted to conform with No. 27 of 1932, s. 2. | 10 |\n| Materials for | | | |\n| Mortar for | 23 | | |\n| Partition | 15 | | (27) |\n| Party | 20, 188-152 | | |\n| Retaining | 18 | | |\n| Tie-rods for | | Re-drafted to include hand machinery.. | (28) |\n| WATER-closets | 18 (3) | 75-81 | Schedule H. |\n| | | (19) | (29) |\n| WEEP-Holes | 18 | | (20) |\n| Required | | | |\n| WOOD Plates | | | |\n| WELLS. | 9, Schedule D | 35 | |\n| WINDOWS, Interpretation of | 4(42), 125(9) | Schedule F | |\n| Obstruction to | 120 | 4 (41) | (21) |\n| | | (31) | (32) |\n| WOOD work near flues | 69, 70, 73 | 74 | |\n| WOODEN Buildings | | Added | (22) |\n| Floors | 45 | 46 | \"but not water closet\" added |\n| WORKS. Interpretation of | | (35) | (85) |\n| Notice of intention to commence.. | | Deleted | (38) | \n## Page 254", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544692, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-547-9 Use of Japanese cement for public works 9-4-1934 - 11-7-1934", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-547-9 Use of Japanese cement for public works 9-4-1934 - 11-7-1934", "content_text": "## 1933\n\n### APRIL\nTender for Boundary Wall at Belilios Reformatory.\n\n### MAY\nTender for Robinson Road widening between Peak Road & Gleneally (including bridge).\n\n### JUNE\nTender for Aberdeen Valley Scheme West Catchwater, 2nd Section.\n\n### JULY\n| Particulars | Cement Used |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tender for Taipo Road, adjoining Castle Peak Road Improvements. | Japanese |\n| Tender for New Gaol at Stanley- Site preparation. | Japanese |\n| Tender for Central British School Site Formation. | Japanese |\n| Tender for Proposed Public Trough Closet & Bath House, Praya East. | Japanese |\n| Tender for House at Fanling. | No Cement used. |\n| Green Island. | Green Island |\n\n### AUGUST\n| Particulars | Cement Used |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tender for construction of an additional Septic Tank at Repulse Bay. | Japanese |\n| Tender for Pottinger Peak Catchwater - 1st Section. | Japanese and Green Island |\n| Tender for Quarters at Royal Observatory - Kowloon. | Green Island |\n| Tender for Botanical & Forestry Department Quarters & Stores at Lai Chi Kok. | Green Island |\n| Tender for Maintenance,etc. of Nullahs, and Construction of additional Sewers, etc:- Kowloon & New Territories; | |\n| ‣ West of Railway | Hongkong |\n| ‣ East of Railway | Western, Eastern, Japanese |\n\n### SEPTEMBER\n| Particulars | Cement Used |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tender for Kowloon Tong permanent Nullah Draining. | Japanese |\n| Tender for Erection of Concrete post and Barbed wire fence at Kai Tak. | Japanese |\n| Tender for alterations to Chair Shelter, Victoria Gap. | Japanese |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-9 Use of Japanese cement for public works 9-4-1934 - 11-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## CROWN LANDS\n\n4. Land Sales, Extensions, Grants, etc.-The total amount of premia paid into the Treasury during the year $2,257,996.67 of which $21,302.00 was derived from fees for survey and boundary stones. The estimates for the year were $1,300,000.00 for Premia on new leases and $30,000.00 for Boundary Stones and Survey Fees. Table A gives a comparative statement and Table B gives a graph of the revenue derived from Land sales, etc., for the years 1924-1933.\n\n5. Sales without auction. These are included in Table A at the end of this Report. The principal one involved the sale of an area of 25,050 square feet to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank from which $1,250,000.00 as premium was derived.\n\n6. Exchanges.-These are also included in Table A.\n\n7. Grants on nominal terms.-Grants of areas were made to the Honourable the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Tung Wah Hospital, St. John Ambulance Brigade, and the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Trust Association.\n\n8. Grants on short leases. Two areas, totalling 47,500 square feet, were granted as New Kowloon Dairy Farm Lots, each for a term of ten years.\n\n9. Extensions of short leases.-Kowloon Garden Lot No. 3 was extended for a further period of five years from 1st May, 1933.\n\n10. Piers-(a) Permanent.-In Hong Kong, on preparation of lease plans for pier No. 5, premium $1,780.00 was charged for the excess area of 356 square feet over original area granted, and a temporary pier was converted to permanent pier No. 45. In Kowloon, extensions were granted to Piers Nos. 9 and 35.\n\n(b) Temporary.-Licenses to erect ten piers in the New Territories were issued during the year with fees amounting to $342.73 and premia to $14.16.\n\n11. Re-entries.-Eighteen lots in Hong Kong (four of which were cancelled), thirteen lots in Kowloon (three of which were cancelled), twenty lots in New Kowloon (nine of which were cancelled), twenty-seven lots in Southern District (New Territories), and one hundred and thirty-six lots in the Northern District (New Territories) were re-entered during the year.\n\n12. Permits to occupy land for short periods. These were of a very miscellaneous character and too numerous to admit of individual mention. (a) The total amount of fee collected during the year was $275,162.03, being $105,946.29 for Hong Kong, $111,100.87 for Kowloon, and $58,114.87 for New Kowloon. New permits issued during the year totalled 616, and 304 were cancelled for various reasons; the total number of permits in force being 4,630. (b) The total amount of fees collected during the year in the New Territories was $3,095.77, being $711.30 for permits in the Southern District and $1,202.37 for yearly, $1,088.30 for five-yearly, $31.80 for ten-yearly, and $62.00 for twenty-one yearly permits in the Northern District.\n\n13. Prospecting and Mining Licenses.-Two new mining and two new prospecting licenses were issued during the year.\n\n## DRAWING OFFICE\n\n14. A staff of one Chief Draughtsman and fifteen Chinese Draughtsmen was employed during the year, and 7,650 plans as detailed below were prepared in connection with 49 land sales, 869 leases, and miscellaneous permits, exchanges, etc.\n\n| | Original Drawings | Tracings | Prints |\n|----------|-------------------|----------|--------|\n| Land Sales | 98 | 588 | 1,788 |\n| Leases | 1,738 | 121 | 3,367 |\n| Miscellaneous | 98 | 1,859 | 5,693 |\n\nIn addition, plans were prepared and sold to the Public, the sum realized being $553.00. A large number was supplied free to various Government Departments.\n\n## TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEYS\n\n15. No trigonometrical work was carried out during the year.\n\n16. Beacons were inspected on the following stations, and repairs were executed where necessary: Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Boa Vista, Shaukiwan, Tai Koo, Quarry Bay, North Point, Causeway Bay, Jardine's Look Out, Hill 800, Mount Nicholson, Violet Hill, Stanley Mound, Stanley, Wong Ma Kok, Stanley Gap, Overbays, Kai Lung Wan, Brick Hill, Pottinger Peak, Shek O, Mount Collinson, Shek O Gap, Collinson Base (North), Red Hill, Mount Gough, Mount Kellett, Victoria Peak, Brewin Path, Cha Kwo Ling, Quarry Hill, Partridge Hill, Kowloon City, Diamond Hill, Tate's Cairn, Kowloon Peak, Beacon Hill, Ping Shan, Shek Po, Castle Peak, Au Tau Minor, Au Tau Major, Mong Tsing, Ma On Kong, Wang Toi Shan, Lin Fa Ti, Kai Kung Ling, Shek Kong, Un Kong, Kam Tin (I), Kam Tin (II), Kam Tsin, Fanling, Sui Hang, Kwan Ti, Tsoi Hang, \"Joss\" Trig., Sugar Loaf, Tolo Rocks, Un Tau Shan, Castle Peak (Pier), San Tin, Mai Po.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544770, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Q 33 \n## COMMUNICATIONS.\n\n### 111. New road between Causeway Bay and Ming Yuen Garden.\nThis work, which was referred to in paragraph 106 of last year's Report, progressed satisfactorily.\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1933 Expenditure | $92,500.70 |\n| Expenditure to 31st Dec., 1933 | $134,311.70 |\n\n### 112. Surfacing 40-foot Roads on Praya East.\nUnder this head, two roads, Jaffe Road and Thomson Road, were kerbed and channelled, and 24\" granolithic paving was laid to footways and 4\" tarmacadam to carriageway.\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Expenditure | $26,803.64 |\n\n### 113. New Road to Bathing Beaches S.E. of Repulse Bay.\nA contract, comprising the construction of a road 30' wide from the Island Road to the southern boundary of R.B.L. 200 and thence 20′ wide to Ma Kong Bay, together with all drainage, was let to Messrs. Sang Lee & Co. on 21.7.33 for a sum of $104,877.50. Progress was good towards the end of the year.\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Expenditure | $3,556.03 |\n\n### 114. Robinson Road-Widening between Peak Road and Glenealy (including bridge).\nThis work, for which a contract was let in April to Messrs. Foo Loong & Co. for a sum of $39,232.50, was commenced towards the end of that month. Progress during the year was satisfactory.\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Expenditure | $28,084.12 |\n\n### 115. Wong Nei Cheong Old Road: Improvements.\nA contract, comprising the construction of a length of about 2,000 feet of 25′ wide road to replace the lower portion of the existing Blue Pool Road (recently known as Wong Nei Cheong Old Road), together with necessary drainage, was let to the General Construction Co. on 10.7.33 for a sum of $28,950.00. Progress during the year was satisfactory.\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Expenditure | $3,784.00 |\n\n### 116. 10-foot path from Shek O Gap to Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station.\nA contract for the construction of the second section of this path, together with all culverts and cross drainage, was let to Messrs. Man Gang on 27.4.33 for a sum of $20,808.00. Progress was good during the year.\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Expenditure | $10,923.92 |\n\n## 92", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544781, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Q 50\n\n207. Fell at Cheung Chau School. The work consisted of the sinking of a well 28′0′′ in depth. Tenders were obtained and the work was carried out in September by Messrs. Chiu Sing Kee in a satisfactory manner.\n\nExpenditure\n$496.00\n\n208. Un Long Nullah improvements. This work was referred to in paragraph 174 of last year's Report. The invert to nullah was satisfactorily completed during the year.\n\nExpenditure\n$1,700.41\n\n## WATER WORKS.\n\n209. Water Supply at Tsun Wan.--The main section of the work was completed on the 1st September, since which date a constant supply has been maintained. This portion of the work consists of: a concrete intake dam a few hundred yards above the bridge on the Shing Mun Access Road; a combined strainer and storage tank of approximately 5,000 gallons capacity; a 4′′ diameter wrought iron supply main from the intake to Tsun Wan Village, 6,400 feet in length; 2,198 feet of 4\" cast iron distribution mains; 470 feet of 2′′ wrought iron distribution mains; 5 fire hydrants; 6 street fountains; an internal supply to the Police Station.\n\nLater, the supply was extended to the next village, the following additions being made: 1,875 feet of 4\" cast iron distribution mains; 500 feet of 2′′ wrought iron distribution mains; 3 fire hydrants; 5 street fountains.\n\nExpenditure\n$25,611.75\n\n210. Main from Taipo Market to New Reservoir - 250 feet of 6\" wrought iron pipe was laid from Taipo Market to the new reservoir, and 1,356 feet of 6\" cast iron main from the road near the 143 mile stone to the strainer tank.\n\nExpenditure\n$2,966.50\n\n## WORKS NOT APPEARING IN ESTIMATES.\n\n211. Remand Home for Juvenile Offenders. The work consisted of the adaptation of the old Belilios Reformatory as a Remand Home for Juvenile Offenders. Considerable alterations and additions to the buildings were necessary, the installation of a water carriage drainage system, complete electric light and bell installations, renovation of the buildings throughout, the erection of a reinforced concrete boundary wall all round the site to a height of 14'0\" above yard level, and a new approach path and steps. The alterations, additions, and renovation were done under the Maintenance of Buildings Contract, and the Contract for the erection of the boundary wall was let to Messrs. Kin Lee & Co. Work was commenced on 13th March, 1933, and was completed on 27th June, 1933.\n\nExpenditure\n$49,491.95\n\n212. Accommodation for Sanitary District Office. - Following the decision to demolish Beaconsfield Arcade, accommodation for the Sanitary District Office was obtained in the Post Office Building.\n\nExpenditure\n$719.62\n\n213. Purchase of Sailors' Home and Seamen's Institute on M.L. 295, and adaptation as Offices. - This building was purchased by Government, and alterations were carried out to provide accommodation for certain offices formerly housed in Beaconsfield Arcade. The work consisted of the erection of partitions and minor alterations, and the building was occupied as follows: Ground floor, Central Medical Office and Stores; 1st floor, Statistical Office of the Imports and Exports Department; 2nd floor, Port Development Office of the Public Works Department. The work was completed in May.\n\nExpenditure\n$196,811.70\n\n214. Demolition of Beaconsfield Arcade. - The work of demolition, which was commenced in June and completed early in August, was carried out by Messrs. Yeung Fat & Co. A credit of $3,500.00 was received from them for the old materials.\n\n215. Demolition of Nos. 1 and 2 Queen's Gardens. - The work of demolition, which was commenced in August and completed in October, was carried out by Messrs. Cheong Hing & Co. A credit of $1,650.00 was received from them for the old materials.\n\n216. Demolition of Waterworks Bungalow, Shaukiwan. - The work of demolition, which was commenced in July and completed in August, was carried out by Messrs. Lam Cheong Kee. A credit of $304.50 was received from them for the old materials.\n\n217. Upper Levels Police Station. - A scheme has been prepared for the erection of temporary Barrack Sheds, with Mess Room, Kitchen, Bath house, and Latrines, to accommodate the... \n\n## Page 110", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "# 147\n\nQ. 88\n\n## Main Traverse\nThe following new traverses were run:\n\n| Locality | Length in ft. | Angular Misclose | Linear Misclose |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| St. 29 near Upper Peak Tram-Peak Road-May Road-Brewin Path Trig. | 6,310 | 17\" | 1 in 6090 |\n| St. 7 Repulse Bay to St. 24 Stanley Gap | 5,537 | 14″ | 1 in 8260 |\n| St. 24 Stanley Gap to Stanley Police Station | 5,412 | 14\" | 1 in 6410 |\n| Wanchai Gap to Aberdeen | 10,000 | 1′20″ | 1 in 11000 |\n| St. 5 in main traverse No. 21 to St. 3 in main traverse No. 1 | 12,100 | 30\" | 1 in 26630 |\n| St. 16 in main traverse No. 15 to St. 5 in main traverse No. 21 | 19,311 | 1'14\" | 1 in 10600 |\n| St. 5 in main traverse No. 21 to St. 16 in main traverse No. 15 | 7,385 | 50\" | 1 in 8500 |\n| St. 7 in main traverse No. 22 to Tates Cairn (Trig.) | 10,950 | 2′00″ | 1 in 9950 |\n| Tates Cairn Trig. to St. 14 in main traverse No. 17 | 13,600 | 2′00″ | 1 in 9000 |\n| St. 62 in main traverse No. 16 to St. 24 in main traverse No. 16 | 13,082 | 40\" | 1 in 12400 |\n\nIn addition, six minor traverses were run, the errors being well within the prescribed limits.\n\n## GENERAL\n\n29. Nineteen Colony Sheets and thirty-two `1/600` were taken up during the period under review. The `1/2400` (map of Hong Kong and Kowloon) was corrected and the `1/20000`, `1/10000` \"Victoria\" brought up to date. Various small surveys were made and plans prepared for the Police Department in connection with criminal cases. The annual perambulation of the Sino-British boundary was made for the inspection of boundary marks.\n\n## LEVELLING\n\n30. Considerable progress has been made with the levelling of the Colony, which, with the exception of a few short lines in outlying districts, has been completed. A detailed report with value of all bench marks is now in course of preparation. The following tabulated statement shows some of the work done during the year:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545001, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Table VII. \n| Bath-house | 1932 Men | 1932 Women | 1932 Children | 1933 Men | 1933 Women | 1933 Children |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| M (1) 22 Wanchai Cross Lane Bath-house | 162,201 | 119,454 | 81,534 | 132,108 | 108,332 | 76,660 |\n| Second Street Bath-house | 209,209 | 132,239 | 65,229 | 139,948 | 87,659 | 49,347 |\n| Pakhoi Street Bath-house | 73,195 | 14,386 | 29,407 | 98,745 | 19,691 | 34,846 |\n| Pound Lane Bath-house | 161,158 | 54,055 | 42,992 | 121,985 | 40,719 | 30,903 |\n| Boundary Street Bath-house | 114,054 | 42,245 | 96,086 | 50,029 | 24,983 | 28,936 |\n| Dyer Avenue Bath-house | 33,489 | 4,739 | 9,529 | 40,351 | 3,658 | 15,034 |\n| Sai Kung Road Bath-house | 48,389 | 10,002 | 31,108 | 48,036 | 11,744 | 29,701 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546466, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "(8)\n\n101\n\nA lot of water in the nullah that day and stones were carried down,\n\nKathleen Charlotte French Fairburn: 8.8. xd Fraser.\n\nOn 22nd June I was living at 16 Macdonnell Road.\n\nThat day I went out about three p.m.\n\nI walked down past playground to No.2 bridge.\n\nIt takes about 10 minutes to get from my house there.\n\nAs I got onto the bridge I heard a scream.\n\nI looked up at No.1 bridge and saw a Chinese man.\n\nI saw him pick up a little boy on his left and throw him into the nullah on the far side.\n\nThen he turned and picked up girl on his right side and threw her over.\n\nThey were European children.\n\nThe man then climbed over the railing and dropped in himself.\n\nHe wore long dark trousers and a light jacket.\n\nTrousers were like Exhibit 9.\n\nJacket was like Exhibit 6.\n\nHe was wearing a straw hat like Exhibit 5.\n\nI afterwards identified this hat from a number of others as being like the hat he wore.\n\nThat was at Central Police Station.\n\nI think he wore shoes but I can't say.\n\nAs he threw the children in he had his back to me.\n\nAs he climbed over the railings I got the side of his face towards me.\n\nI had a clear view of him.\n\nHe dropped over fully dressed.\n\nI ran at once up the path to No.1 bridge.\n\nI could see the nullah as I ran up.\n\nI saw a little boy clinging to the side of the nullah on the left on this side of the bridge.\n\nThat was as I ran up boundary path.\n\nI saw nobody washed down the nullah.\n\nWhen I got to bridge I saw little girl on her knees on the upper side of the bridge in the nullah.\n\nI had the impression she was on the step.\n\nI looked over the bridge but I saw nobody else.\n\nI ran round and called some chair boys to come down.\n\nThey came and a man in long white trousers helped them and they got the children out.\n\nThe Chinese man and chair coolies brought the little girl out.\n\nThe little boy I lost sight of, but I saw him brought out by a European soldier.\n\nI never saw the man again after he jumped in.\n\nHe could have been washed down without my seeing him.\n\nI stood looking over No.1 bridge looking at the little girl.\n\nOn 9th July I attended identification parade.\n\nNumber of men all dressed alike.\n\nI was asked if I could pick out man I saw on 22nd June.\n\nI identified accused.\n\nHe had same hair, same high cheek bones, and sunken cheeks.\n\nxxd.Lim.\n\nIn magistrate's court I gave evidence recorded on page 10. What I then said is correct.\n\nWhen I first saw the man I had just come onto the bridge.\n\nI was just entering the bridge.\n\nThe whole thing was a matter of seconds.\n\nI can't remember what the little girl was doing when the boy was thrown in\n\nShe was just there.\n\nTo the Magistrate I said she seemed to be looking into nullah.\n\nThe girl had on a light coloured dress.\n\nFrom No.2 I had a good view of No.1 bridge.\n\nI ran immediately up boundary path.\n\nAt Police Station I saw several hats and identified this one (Exhibit 5)\n\nMan had his hat on throughout.\n\nJ\n\nAt identification parade I saw a row of men and identified accused.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546520, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "155\n\nP.9.\n\nEx. V.\n\nP.10.\n\nP.11.\n\nI left my house about 3 p.m. roughly and went straight down the steps opposite Ticia Mansions and so to Kennedy Road. I crossed Kennedy Road and went down the steps between the two blocks of married quarters and came out leaving the Garrison School on my left. I approached the bridge (Bridge No.2) that crosses the nullah, as seen here in the Plan (Ex. I) and also in this photograph (Ex. IV). I heard screams and I looked up to the left towards the other bridge (Bridge No.1, which I see in Ex.II & III). About in the middle of Bridge No.1, standing with his back to me, was a Chinese male with a white shirt, dark long trousers, and a straw hat similar in shape to this one, Ex.V. The top garment was white; in the distance, it looked like a shirt. As I looked, the man picked up a little boy who was standing on Bridge No.1 and threw him over on the far side. He then picked up a little girl who was also there, threw her in, climbed over the railings, and dropped in himself. No one was left on the bridge at all. Just as he climbed over the railings, he turned very slightly towards me, and I caught a glimpse of his side face. I ran up the path between the two bridges marked Boundary Path on the plan. I had a full view of the nullah and I saw the little boy who had climbed out of the deep part of the nullah and was clinging to the wall on the far side. As he was safe, I rushed on to Bridge No.1 and saw the little girl kneeling in the centre of the nullah. She was screaming. I could not get down, and after trying higher up, I returned to No.1 bridge and called to some of the chair coolies, and they climbed down. Later, a Chinese boy dressed in white tennis trousers climbed down, and the little girl was helped out. The chair coolies helped to get her out.\n\nA few minutes later, the little boy was brought to me by a soldier. I could not recognise the soldier.\n\nOn the 9th July, I attended an identification parade at Police", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549283, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "5\n\nGeneral Index,-Continued.\n\nS,—Continued.\n\nSTONES; Removal of\n\nSTOREY; Interpretation of\n\nHeight of\n\nSTORM WATER-CHANNELS\n\nSTOVES; Floor under\n\nSTREET, Interpretation of\n\nWidth of\n\nPrivate\n\nSTRUCTURES; Inflammable\n\nParty\n\nSECTION\n\n123\n\n4 (39)\n\n17 (proviso 3)\n\n39, 40\n\n110-113\n\n68\n\n4 (40) and 82 (8)\n\n62\n\n89\n\n122\n\nSchedule M.\n\n4 (33)\n\nT.\n\nTENANCY CONTRACTS\n\nTENANT, Interpretation of\n\nTENEMENT, Interpretation of\n\nTIE RODS\n\nTIMBER STORES\n\nTYPE-PLANS\n\nTYPES of ARCHITECTURE\n\n3\n\n4 (41)\n\n4 (42)\n\n19 (3)\n\n115\n\n167 (3)\n\n7-10\n\nV.\n\nVENTILATION, of Buildings\n\nunder floors\n\nVERANDAH, Interpretation of\n\nObstruction in\n\nRegulations\n\nRules as to\n\nW.\n\nWALLS: Interpretation of\n\nCross\n\nExternal\n\nMain\n\nPartition\n\nParty\n\nBlue bricks\n\nBonding of\n\nBoundary or fence\n\nCross\n\nDamp-proof courses for\n\nExternal\n\nFoundations for\n\nHollow\n\nHoop iron courses for\n\nLath and plaster\n\nLimitation of length of\n\nMaterials for\n\nMortar for\n\nPartition\n\nParty\n\nRetaining\n\n74\n\n36\n\n4 (43)\n\n63\n\nSchedules E & G.\n\n58-61\n\n4 (44)\n\n4 (18)\n\n4 (18)\n\n4 (26)\n\n4 (32)\n\n4 (34)\n\n16\n\n29\n\n25\n\n19, 20\n\n22\n\n17, 19 (3)\n\n23\n\n28\n\n29\n\n28\n\n19\n\n12\n\n16\n\n21\n\n26, 134-138\n\n24\n\n19 (3)\n\nTie-rods for\n\nWATER-CLOSETS\n\nWEEP-HOLES\n\nWELLS,\n\nWINDOWS, Interpretation of\n\nObstruction to\n\nRequired\n\nWOOD Plates\n\nWOOD-work near flues\n\nWOODEN Buildings\n\nFloors\n\nWORKS, Interpretation of\n\nNotice of intention to commence...\n\n94-100\n\nSchedule J.\n\n24\n\n114\n\n4 (46)\n\n73, 74, 77\n\n78\n\n53\n\n54\n\n15\n\nSchedule L.\n\n37\n\n4 (10), 4 (47)\n\nSchedule A.\n\n11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "28 \n\nJ \n\nBasement. \n\nBuild. \n\nBuilding. \n\nBuilding Authority. \n\nBuilding owner. \n\nBuilding works, \n\nCement. \n\nCockloft. \n\nCrosa wall. \n\nDangerous building. \n\nDomestic building. \n\nExceptional building. \n\nExternal air. \n\n(5) \"Basement\" means any cellar, vault, or underground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding 2 feet above the floor level. \n\n(6) \"Build\" includes carry on works. \n\n(7) \"Building\" includes any part of a domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, godown, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, sunshade, garage, well, piling, septic tank, cow-shed and hoarding. \n\n(8) \"Building Authority\" means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance. \n\n(9) \"Building owner\" means such one of the owners of adjoining land who is desirous of building, or such one of the owners of buildings, storeys, or rooms, separated from one another by a party wall or party structure who does or is desirous of doing a work affecting that party wall or party structure. \n\n(10) \"Building works\" includes any building construction, site formation, repairs, alterations, additions and every kind of building operation whatsoever. \n\n(11) \"Cement\" means Portland Cement. \n\n(12) \"Cockloft\" includes any floor other than a ground floor, and any platform or landing of a greater breadth than three feet and which has not a clear space of nine feet measured vertically above it. \n\n(13) \"Cross wall\" means any wall not exposed to the outer air other than a partition wall, used or constructed to be used for separation of one part of any building from another part of the same building. \n\n(14) \"Dangerous building\" means a building in such a condition as to cause risk of injury either to the occupiers or users of such building or to the occupiers or users of any neighbouring building, or to passengers. \n\n(15) \"Domestic building\" means any building constructed, used, or adapted to be used, wholly or partly, for human habitation, but does not include any building where caretakers only, not exceeding two in number, pass the night. \n\n(16) \"Exceptional building\" includes (i) every public building, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, every building intended for special uses, every building made wholly or partly of reinforced concrete, every building made wholly or partly of glass, iron or other material not provided for in this Ordinance, and (ii) every part of every building which is an exceptional building within the meaning of the first part of this paragraph. \n\n(17) \"External air\" means the air of any space which is vertically open to the sky and unobstructed and which, (when measured from and at right angles to the external surface of a wall, or where there is a verandah or balcony when measured from the external surface of such verandah or balcony), has a dimension of not less than thirteen feet throughout the extent of any window opening in such wall, and which (when measured parallel to the external surface of such wall, verandah or balcony and in a horizontal direction) has a dimension of not less than seven feet. \n\n(18) \"External Wall\" means an outer wall of any part of any building not being a party wall, even though adjoining to a wall of another building but does include any outer wall of a verandah projecting over a street. \n\n(19) \"Factory\" means any premises or place wherein or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any machinery other than machinery worked entirely by hand is used in aid of any industrial undertaking carried on in such premises or place. \n\n(20) \"Floor\" includes any horizontal platform forming the base of any storey, and every joist, board, timber, stone, brick, or other substance, connected with and forming part of such platform. \n\n(21) \"Hill-side\" means the face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building. \n\n(22) \"Hill District\" means any part of the island of Hong Kong above the 700-feet contour. \n\n(23) \"Kowloon Point District\" means that portion of Kowloon bounded on the South by Salisbury Road, on the North by Jordan Road and Gascoigne Road, on the East by Chatham Road and on the West by Nathan Road. \n\n(24) \"Latrine\" includes privy, pail latrine, water closet and urinal. \n\n(25) \"Latrine accommodation\" includes a receptacle for human excreta, together with the structure comprising such receptacle and the fittings and the apparatus connected therewith. \n\n(26) \"Main wall\" means either an external or a party wall. \n\n(27) \"Mid-level District\" means that portion of the City of Victoria which is situated on the southern or south-eastern boundary of a dividing line beginning from a point on the Pokfulam Road at No. 1 Bridge and passing along Pokfulam Road, High Street, Bonham Road and Caine Road as far as Ladder Street to Wing Lee Street, thence along Wing Lee Street and Po Wa Street and bisecting Inland Lot 94, thence along the Northern boundary of Inland Lots 100, 1086, 122 and 123, thence along Shelley Street and the northern boundary of Inland Lot 125 to Old Bailey, thence along Chancery Lane, Chancery Lane Steps, Wyndham Street, Lower Albert Road and Ice House Street, thence along Queen's Road Central and Queen's Road East to the Eastern boundary of War Department land, thence along the Western boundary of Inland Lots 47A, 47 and 1211 until this line produced meets Monmouth Path, thence in a straight line to \n\n29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549308, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "13 \n\n(2) If any wall exceeds 35 feet but does not exceed 60 feet in length clear of cross walls, the thickness of such wall shall, unless the Building Authority otherwise permits, be increased by adding 4½ inches to the thickness specified in sub-section (1). \n\napply to \n\nwalls hereafter erected or re-erected. \n\n18. The provisions of section 17 shall also apply, in the case of existing buildings, to any walls or portions of walls hereafter erected or re-erected therein : Provided that in any case where from any cause it is not practicable or desirable to apply such provisions, the thicknesses shall be determined by the Building Authority. \n\nof length \n\n19.-(1) No wall, other than a boundary wall, shall exceed sixty feet in length, clear of any return or cross wall, without the approval of the Building Authority. \n\nCross \n\nA wall shall not be deemed a cross wall for the purpose of determining the length of any external or party wall unless it is carried up to the top of the topmost storey, and unless in each storey the aggregate extent of the vertical faces or elevations of all the recesses and that of all the openings therein taken together shall not exceed one-half of the whole extent of the vertical face or elevation of the wall in such storey. \n\nover 80 feet \n\nto be \n\nMeasurement \n\n(2) No wall shall exceed eighty feet in height without the approval of the Building Authority. The height of every wall shall be measured from the level of the adjacent foot-path, or, where no foot-path exists, from the level of the street or ground outside to the highest part of such wall or, in the case of a gable, to half the height of such gable, but shall in no case include any portion of a wall which acts as a retaining wall. \n\nof walls. Ornamental towers, turrets, or other architectural features or decorations, not exceeding nine feet in height and parapets not exceeding three feet in height shall not be included in measuring the height of such wall. \n\nexternal \n\nthan 35 feet \n\n(3) Any external wall of a building exceeding thirty-five feet in length, clear of cross walls, shall be secured at the level of each upper floor, and at the ceiling or roof, with wrought-iron tie-rods not less than one and a quarter inches in diameter, spaced not more than twelve feet apart and extending through such external wall and the nearest parallel wall of such building. The tie-rods shall have screwed ends with nuts bearing upon wrought-iron washer plates not less than eighteen inches square by half an inch in thickness, or cast-iron washer plates to be approved by the Building Authority, and the brickwork of each wall for its full thickness and for an area of two feet square round the end of each tie-rod shall be built in cement-mortar : \n\nProvided that the Building Authority may modify or dispense with the requirements of this sub-section whenever he may consider such requirements unnecessary. \n\nof cross \n\nmain walls. \n\n20. The thickness of every cross wall shall be at least two-thirds of the thickness prescribed by section 17 in that behalf for an external wall or party wall of the same height and length and belonging to the same class of building as that to which such cross wall belongs, unless, in any particular case, the Building Authority shall specially authorise a less thickness. But if such cross wall supports a superincumbent external wall the whole of such cross wall shall be of the thickness prescribed for an external wall or party wall of the same height and length and belonging to the same class of building as that to which such cross wall belongs. \n\n39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549315, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "48\n\nTimber or wood-work near flue or chimney.\n\n22\n\n54. No timber or wood-work shall be placed in any wall or chimney-breast nearer than nine inches from the inside of any flue or chimney-opening, nor under any chimney-opening within six inches from the upper surface of the hearth of such chimney-opening.\n\nLimitation of projections. Mouldings shutters and other projections.\n\nProjections into public thorough-fares prohibited.\n\nProviso in case of public buildings.\n\nEncroachments over Streets regulated.\n\nSchedules E and F.\n\nSchedules G and H.\n\nBalconies forbidden in streets less than 25 feet wide; Projections, etc.\n\n55. No encroachment or projection whatsoever, excepting eaves, cornices and mouldings not exceeding eighteen inches projection, shall extend over any street or unleased Crown land unless with the special permission of the Building Authority.\n\n56. Every eaves, cornice moulding or other projection whatsoever over any street or unleased Crown land shall be constructed of such material and in such manner as the Building Authority may decide and no door, gate, window or shutter opening on any street shall be so hung or placed as to project beyond the building at a height of less than seven and one half feet above the street level.\n\n57. Save as by this Ordinance provided, it shall not be lawful for any person to make any door or gate in such manner as to open over a public thoroughfare, nor to project any door-step or landing on, or across any public foot-path, nor to extend or affix any sunshade, telegraph wire, signboard, lamp, grating, gutter, or other unauthorised projection from any building in such manner as shall cause obstruction, danger, or annoyance, in any street or to the passengers thereon, or so as to cause any encroachment on or over any street or unleased Crown land:\n\nProvided that in the case of theatres and other public buildings the doors may with the consent of the Building Authority be made to open outwards over a public thoroughfare.\n\nVerandahs, balconies and areas.\n\n58. No encroachment shall be made on, over or into any street whether public or private or into unleased Crown land by any verandah or balcony, or by any area, or by any structure whatsoever-\n\n(1) unless with the previous consent of the Governor and subject to such conditions as he may see fit to impose:\n\nand\n\n(2) until the applicant for leave to make such encroachment shall have previously signed an undertaking in the form contained in Schedules E or F; and\n\n(3) unless in accordance with the regulations contained in Schedules G and H; and\n\n(4) unless the building to which such verandah, balcony, area or structure appertains shall comply in all respects with every provision of this Ordinance.\n\n59. No balcony shall, except with the consent of the Governor in Council, be hereafter erected or re-erected to project over any street, whether public or private, which is less than twenty-five feet in width.\n\n- 23 -\n\nwidth of street or when the building exceeds in height the width of the street.\n\n60. No verandah or balcony shall, except with the consent of the Governor in Council, be hereafter erected or re-erected to project from any building which exceeds in height the width of the street over which such verandah or balcony intended to project, nor shall any building from which a verandah or balcony projects be afterwards increased in height so as to exceed the width of the street over which such verandah or balcony projects.\n\nBalconies.\n\n61. The number of storeys and the projection of verandahs or balconies projecting over any street shall be determined by measuring on the line of the wall abutting on such street a vertical height equal to the width of the street over which the verandahs or balconies are intended to project and from the point thus determined a line at an angle of 75° with the horizontal shall be drawn and any part of a verandah or balcony except the balustrade, falling outside such line shall be deemed illegal, and no portion of any verandah or balcony shall project beyond the line of kerb of the footpath underneath such verandah or balcony provided that in no case shall the projection exceed 11'6\" from the lot boundary adjoining such verandah or balcony and if there be no foot-path the projection of the verandah or balcony shall be determined by the Building Authority.\n\n62. The width of a street shall be determined by the Building Authority.\n\nRestriction on partitions, obstructions and inclosures in verandahs or balconies.\n\n63. No partition (other than such as may be necessary for the separation of the verandah or balcony of any building from the verandah or balcony of any adjacent building) shall be erected in any verandah or balcony over unleased Crown land or over any street, nor shall any such verandah or balcony be obstructed or inclosed wholly or in part, (except by a balustrade not exceeding 3 feet in height) or used as a bathroom, urinal, water closet, sleeping apartment, store-room, or kitchen, nor shall any rain or other water be discharged therefrom save in the manner hereinbefore provided.\n\nProvided that, in the case of hotels and blocks of offices, such partitions may be erected as may be necessary for the separation of one room or suite of rooms from any adjacent room.\n\nKitchens, fireplaces and chimneys.\n\n64. Every domestic building, and every floor of a domestic building which is separately let for dwelling purposes, shall be provided with adequate kitchen accommodation, the internal area of which shall not, except with the permission of the Building Authority, as signified by the approval of the plan required under the provisions of this Ordinance, be less than sixty square feet, and every kitchen shall be provided with a properly constructed fireplace, and every kitchen shall be properly paved or floored with cement-concrete or other non-absorbent material approved by the Building Authority. The internal surface of the walls, of every kitchen shall also be rendered in cement-mortar, or other non-absorbent material approved by the said Authority,\n\n49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550949, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "# \n## KOWLOON'S NEEDS \n## Mr. Braga Suggests Work On Roads \n## TERRITORY GARDENS \n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga said:- Your Excellency, I propose to direct my remarks on a few subjects more as a matter of policy than in criticism of the Budget proposals. We are passing through admittedly depressed times calling for sympathy and co-operative efforts in an earnest endeavour to provide a solution to real difficulties. I cannot recall past programmes of Public Works Extraordinary of major importance appearing without a single item, as is the case for 1937. The only item of consequence is scheduled under \"Loan Works\" for the commencement of a new Central Market. This being the case, attention is necessarily drawn to the question of the general staff of the Public Works Department. It may appear anomalous, however, that, without any large-scale public works, the Budget should be burdened with architects' salaries alone amounting to $157,209 in 1937.\n\nWhile inviting your Excellency's attention to what strikes more or less an unsatisfactory position, I would like to offer a suggestion. The eleven architects are technical officers with acquired experience who are not easily replaceable, and for that reason full advantage should be taken of their available professional services at the present time in making preparations and plans for the future construction of major public works when funds become eventually available, such as the Post Office and Government offices in Kowloon. Both these are referred to in the report of the Director of Public Works for 1935. An important extension of the Kowloon Hospital, viz., the maternity wards for Chinese patients, should not be further delayed.\n\nI am making no reflection on the holder of the office designated as \"Inspector of Furniture\" on p. 97 of the draft Estimates; but, it seems open to question if it is really necessary that an officer such as described should be paid a sterling salary equivalent to $8,560 next year. If in the discharge of his duties no special technical qualifications are called for, then in the interest of economy the present post is one that should be transferred to the dollar grade as soon as possible.\n\n## Roads Maintenance \n\nI still regard the Roads Maintenance Vote as wholly insufficient. To neglect roads so that they fall into a state of such serious disrepair as can be pointed out in Kowloon and the New Territories during the current year, is a policy that works out much more expensively in the long run. On this subject I would like to state that the Kowloon Residents' Association has requested me publicly to bring this question to the notice of your Excellency and this Council.\n\nI would like to go even further and state that Government should immediately take in hand what I might describe as essential road works. In this connection, I would urge the completion of the road from Argyle Street to Tam Kung Road. It only requires the widening and surfacing of the path from the approach road to the new Central British School to the Riding School—a length of about 300 or 400 yards to provide the logical connection by road between Kowloon Tong, Mongkok, Kowloon Hospital, etc., on the one hand, and Hunghom and Tokwawan on the other. Does it not appear strange that the Kowloon Hospital cannot be reached from anywhere at Tokwawan by car without having to travel the circuitous road round to Kowloon City?\n\nAnother path which should be similarly treated is the one running parallel with the railway between Waterloo Road and King's Park, thereby providing a through motor road from Waterloo Road to Gascoigne Road, and considerably shortening the distance from Kowloon Tong and Homuntin to King's Park and Chatham Road.\n\nI submit that the cost of these two very necessary improvements would be inconsiderable and would be fully justified. The saving in time which would be effected and from the Star Ferry wharf would be of great benefit.\n\nGovernment is to be commended for having widened the junction of Waterloo Road and Argyle Street. This used to be a danger spot for traffic, but where Waterloo Road should be at its widest (viz., at its junction with Nathan Road) it is actually at its narrowest. The dangerous bend at this point should be eliminated and thus make more room for the daily growing traffic flowing into Nathan Road.\n\nThese are outstanding road works not involving a great deal of money calling for immediate attention in Kowloon. I shall now deal with road requirements in the New Territories.\n\nThanks, I feel, are due for the construction of a new motor road through splendidly wooded country full of wild bird life from upper Shatin Road leading to the Shing Mun Valley.\n\n## Tsun Wan's Growth \n\nWith the completion of Tsun Wan Market, this district is gradually assuming the air of a growing township. The motor highway in the vicinity of the village is now much too narrow for the daily increasing traffic, and when it is remembered that the open ground by the roadside is utilised by the enterprising owners of the pineapple plantations as an open market for retailing the luscious fruit with the harvesting of the midsummer crop, the roads office of the P.W.D. might usefully consider the provision of a very necessary road improvement in this district. In particular, I trust Government will immediately widen the dangerous bend in the road just before Tsun Wan is reached.\n\nAgain, there are still several sharp hairpin bends near the Kowloon Reservoir which are a positive danger to traffic. The Roads Engineer probably finds his limitations in the indispensable provision of funds. The restriction need not be carried to the point of continuing a condition that is considered unsafe for speedy wheeled traffic. The bridge at the Reservoir and another in Shatin Valley at Tai Wa village just before reaching the railroad tracks, both require to be replaced. They are too narrow for two cars to pass abreast and, furthermore, were not designed, I am sure, to take the heavy loads now carried over them daily. Shatin village road is also capable of widening. The motorist, especially in view of the higher taxation on petrol and motor car licences, has a right to expect that these matters should receive prompt attention.\n\nWithout great expense also certain parts of the Castle Peak and Taipo Roads could be widened to give more room for pedestrians and people carrying bulky loads where they might be clear of motor traffic. Trees at present along the road need not be removed, but could mark the boundary for motor traffic, and behind the trees an extra stretch could be added to the road for use by pedestrians only.\n\n## Typhoon Damage \n\nIn speaking of trees, I feel that attention need only be drawn for the Botanical and Forestry Department to see that those up-rooted by the recent typhoon on the roads in the New Territories as well as in Kowloon will soon be replaced. Some information might be usefully given on the question of the water supply to the Castle Peak district. Beyond the bare official statement that a small supply scheme was investigated in the Colony last year, some indication of the intention of the Government regarding the prosecution of this scheme should be forthcoming.\n\nFor the benefit of many residents in various parts of the Peninsula I should like to urge, for the serious consideration of the Medical and Sanitary Department, that market gardens situated in the immediate vicinity of residential places should be completely done away with. Complaints are constantly made that the gardeners are in the habit of freely using nightsoil as a fertiliser, and no number of warnings deters them from carrying on the serious nuisance, which is a menace to public health.\n\nMuch can be said regarding the unsatisfactory condition of the Homuntin Cemetery. It is a seriously debatable question whether the shutting down of this cemetery for more burials and its transfer out of a central residential area has not now become imperative.\n\nAt any rate, the matter is one that should be looked into by the President of the Urban Council.\n\nThe health of the community should also be catered to by allocating more open spaces and playgrounds, especially in congested areas. This is notoriously lacking in the Homuntin district. Children in this locality can be seen in large numbers daily making use of the public roadways for games.\n\n## Bathing and Broadcasting \n\nIt has been truthfully said that we have the sea on almost every side of us and yet the majority of the citizens of this Colony are denied the amenities of its bathing beaches. It is the duty of the Government to make ample provision at least for the better health of its people, and a special point should be made to provide more public bathing beaches, especially on the Peninsula, with proper facilities for dressing, which should be made easily accessible to the residents of the Colony next summer. The minority class of the well-to-do can afford their well-appointed glorified pavilions and shacks. What about the majority of the middle class who are as little provided with an abundance of money and as badly off for a lot of time after office hours to indulge in this most popular form of healthful and beneficial recreation? Government may take a timely hint in earmarking definite large beach areas in Hebe Haven with the completion of the Customs Pass Road extension.\n\nPage 70 \nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564806, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "## Sub-head 41.-Canton Road-New intercepting sewers, $10,000.-To improve existing drainage facilities and to permit of the installation of water closets in the district.\n\n42.-Argyle Street Nullah reconstruction, $10,000.-The existing nullah is old and in poor condition and heavier side walls are required to resist modern traffic loads.\n\n43.-Anti-Malarial Works, $10,000.-To continue the training of stream courses and draining of swamps to prevent mosquito breeding.\n\n## PORT WORKS\n\n44.-North Point-Reclamation Extension, $3,750.-To continue reclamation work already approved.\n\n45.-Kennedy Town-Construction of Seawall and Cattle Pier, $4,000.—Very little work was done under this item in 1939. Settlement has to be allowed for and delay in completing the work in 1940 may be unavoidable.\n\n46.-Extension of Reclamation-Jubilee Street Pier to Pottinger Street Pier, $375,000.-To continue the work already approved for the provision of additional berthing accommodation, etc.\n\n47.-Sand screening equipment, $15,000.-This equipment is considered necessary in order to obtain the most suitable grades of sand for concrete liable to salt water action.\n\n48.-Government Slipway Yaumati—Reconstruction of Pier, $27,000.-The old pier is inadequate and in a dilapidated condition. Its renewal is essential.\n\n49.-Nullahs at Kai Tak--Repairs to decking, $1,300.-This sum is for payment of retention money.\n\n50.-Kun Tong Refuse Dump, $8,000.-To continue the reclamation and to pay retention money on the seawall Contract.\n\n51.-Construction of seawall and filling in old slipway at Hung Hom, $500. To complete the work which includes filling in an old slipway.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n52.-Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas, $60,000.—Required to provide additional burial space.\n\n53.-Colonial Cemetery-Laying out new areas, $2,000. To extend burial space within the boundaries of the cemetery.\n\n54.-Hammer Hill Urning Ground, $6,500.—To continue the opening up of this new area.\n\n55.-Fongneichong Development, $40,000.—To provide for roads, sewers and storm water drainage.\n\n56.-Traffic signs, $2,000.—To meet the cost of such traffic signs and guide lines as are considered necessary by the Police.\n\n57.-Street Name Plates. $5,000.—To cover the cost of new name plates.\n\n58.-Rewiring Government Buildings, $22,500.-The buildings to be rewired are-Harbour Office, Quarry Bay School, 158-9 The Peak, Stanley Police Station, Architectural Office, Kowloon City Bath House, Boundary Street Bath House, Sanitary Department Garage, Kowloon City Market; Latrines at :-Yen Chau Street, Nam Cheong Street, Hok Un Street, Mongkok Road, Jordan Road, Sham Shui Po Market. The existing wiring is lead covered and is in poor condition.\n\n59.-Extension of Sunprinting room, P.W.D., $3,300.-The present accommodation is inadequate and considerable delay in the preparation of sunprints has been experienced.\n\n60.-Queen Mary Hospital-Incinerator and shed, $8,000.-An incinerator adjoining a hospital of the size of the Queen Mary is considered essential.\n\n61.-New Territories Police Stations Incinerators, $3,000. This sum is the balance of the $5,500 shown in last year's estimates to provide incinerators at New Territories Police Stations.\n\n62.—Kai Tak—Surfacing, $3,000.—To continue work done in 1939.\n\n63.-Tsa Tau Kok Slaughter House-Resurfacing floor, $5,500.—The old surfacing is beyond repair and requires renewal.\n\n64.-New Government Quarry at Hok Un, $150,000.-It is proposed to open a new Quarry at Hok Ün, west of Chatham Road. The sum inserted is to defray the cost of site preparation, foundations and plant.\n\n65. Compensation and Resumption, $42,000.—To cover the cost of resumption of private properties fronting on roads which require widening or realignment.\n\n66.—Air Raids Precautions, $300,000.—To cover expenditure requested by the Director of Air Raid Precautions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589613, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947", "content_text": "SECOND SCHEDULE\n\n(Section 13)\n\n94\n\nWhere in this Schedule a road, street, lane or path is designated as part of any boundary, the boundary shall be deemed to be along the middle thereof.\n\nI.\n\nWards on the Island of Hong Kong.\n\nIsland Eastern Ward.\n\nThe area east of the following boundary: A line from the harbour opposite the north end of Canal Road West along the following roads and streets namely Canal Road West to Leighton Hill Road, Leighton Hill Road to its junction with Morrison Hill Road, Morrison Hill Road to Gap Road, Gap Road to Stubbs Road, Stubbs Road to Wongneichong Gap Road, Repulse Bay Road to its junction with Island Road and thence to the foreshore immediately to the east of Rural Building Lot No.395.\n\nKellett Island is included in this Ward.\n\nIsland Western Ward.\n\nThe area west and south of the following boundary: A line from the harbour opposite the north end of Eastern Street along the following roads and streets namely, Eastern Street to its junction with Bonham Road, Bonham Road to Oaklands Path, Oaklands Path to Robinson Road, thence following the nullah through Inland Lot No.946 to Conduit Road and thence following the path immediately on the west of Inland Lot No.2479 to the eastern end of Po Shan Road and crossing that road to the contour 700 feet above principal datum, thence following the 700 foot contour westwards, then southwards and then eastwards until it meets Repulse Bay Road, then following the boundary of the Island Eastern Ward southward to Island Road and the foreshore.\n\nThe Island of Aplichau is included in this Ward.\n\n(1)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589615, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947", "content_text": "2nd Sched.\n\n96\n\nThe harbour frontage from a point opposite the north end of Cleverly Street to a point opposite the northern end of Jubilee Street and thence following the boundary of the Central Ward via Jubilee Street to the point where Peak Road meets the 700 foot contour, thence following that contour to a point immediately to the west of Inland Lot No.1712, thence northwards to Conduit Road, thence along the following roads and streets, namely the road under the bridge on Conduit Road to Robinson Road, Castle Road to Seymour Road, Seymour Road to Caine Road, Caine Road to Ladder Street, Ladder Street to Queen's Road West, Queen's Road West to Cleverly Street and Cleverly Street to the harbour frontage.\n\nTai Ping Shan West Ward.\n\nThe area within the following boundaries:\n\nThe harbour frontage from a point opposite the north end of Eastern Street to a point opposite the north end of Cleverly Street, thence following the boundary of the Tai Ping Shan East Ward via Cleverly Street to the point where it meets the 700 foot contour then westwards following that contour to the point where it meets the boundary of the Island Western Ward and thence following the boundary of that Ward via Oaklands Path and Eastern Street to the harbour frontage.\n\nII. Wards on the Kowloon Peninsula.\n\nSouth Kowloon Ward.\n\nThe area south of the following boundary:\n\nA line from the water front at the western end of Waterloo Road along Waterloo Road to its junction with Nathan Road and thence eastwards to the western end of Anhui Street, Anhui Street to its junction with Ma Tan Wei Road, Ma Tam Wei Road to its junction with To Kwa Wan Road and thence south-eastwards along the southern boundaries of Kowloon Inland Lot No.722 and Kowloon Marine Lot No.72 to the harbour.\n\n(3)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 597090, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951", "page_number": 121, "title": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951", "content_text": "112\n\nPROGRAMME OF MAJOR WORKS FOR THE PERIOD\n\n175\n\n1951/52 TO 1955/56.\n\nAll figures in $ million.\n\n \n Estimate\n 1951/52\n 1952/53\n 1953/54\n 1954/55\n 1955/56\n \n \n City Hall\n 10.0\n 0.05\n 2.95\n 7.0\n \n \n \n Central Government offices\n 10.0\n 1.5\n 3.0\n 3.0\n 2.5\n \n \n Albany quarters\n 1.0\n 1.0\n \n \n \n \n \n Board of Education's 10 year plan\n 7.5\n 1.5\n 1.5\n 1.5\n 1.5\n \n \n Kowloon fire station\n 2.0\n 2.0\n \n \n \n \n \n Kowloon general hospital and quarters.\n 11.2\n 1.2\n 5.0\n 5.0\n \n \n \n Mental hospital\n 5.7\n 3.0\n 2.7\n \n \n \n \n Hong Kong T.B. clinic\n 0.23\n 0.23\n \n \n \n \n \n Canton Road police quarters\n 5.5\n 5.0\n 0.5\n \n \n \n \n Police headquarters\n 5.0\n 1.0\n 4.0\n \n \n \n \n Shau Tau Kok blockhouse\n 0.5\n 0.5\n \n \n \n \n \n Childrens' detention place\n 0.25\n 0.25\n \n \n \n \n \n Workshop and garage\n 2.5\n 2.5\n \n \n \n \n \n Abattoir\n 14.48\n 0.48\n 4.0\n 5.0\n 5.0\n \n \n Light construction markets\n 1.0\n 0.2\n 0.2\n 0.2\n 0.2\n \n \n Public latrines and bath-houses\n 0.45\n 0.09\n 0.09\n 0.09\n 0.09\n \n \n Sewer replacements\n 0.22\n 0.22\n \n \n \n \n \n Star ferry piers\n 9.0\n 2.0\n 3.5\n 3.5\n \n \n \n Central reclamation scheme\n 5.0\n 2.5\n 2.5\n \n \n \n \n Causeway Bay reclamation scheme\n 2.0\n 1.5\n 0.5\n \n \n \n \n North Point sea wall\n 2.0\n 1.0\n 1.0\n \n \n \n \n New Territories bridges\n 3.7\n 0.25\n 1.35\n 1.3\n 0.8\n \n \n Kennedy Road\n 1.8\n 0.5\n 0.5\n 0.5\n 0.3\n \n \n Reconstruction of side streets\n 1.25\n 0.25\n 0.25\n 0.25\n 0.25\n \n \n Road off Boundary Street\n 0.5\n 0.25\n 0.25\n \n \n \n \n Blue Pool Road\n 0.4\n 0.4\n \n \n \n \n \n Mt. Kellet Road\n 0.3\n 0.3\n \n \n \n \n \n Service reservoirs\n 3.0\n 0.3\n 0.7\n 1.3\n 0.7\n \n \n Experimental wells in New Territories.\n 0.2\n 0.1\n 0.1\n \n \n \n \n \n 106.68\n 21.82\n 25.39\n 31.29\n 25.84\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2.34", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]